Kashmir Voice

Srinagar, September 23 (Kashmir Voice): Continuing its terror against the people of occupied Kashmir, India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has summoned the President of Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA), Muhammad Yasin Khan, to its headquarters in New Delhi.
According to media sources, the NIA has summoned Muhammad Yasin Khan to its headquarters in New Delhi on Monday (September 25). The NIA has also summoned the APHC Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani’s son, Dr Naseem Gilani, who teaches at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar, once again for questioning at its headquarters on the same day. “Dr Naseem has been called again on 25th of September to NIA headquarters in New Delhi,” a statement of the members of Faculty of Forestry, University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, said. Dr Naseem Gilani was first questioned by the NIA from August 8 to August 11 at the NIA headquarters in Delhi. A second round of questioning was done from August 24 to August 30. He has been summoned for questioning for the third time. KASHMIR VOICE

Srinagar, September 23 (Kashmir Voice): In occupied Kashmir, a Kupwara youth who was picked up by Indian army almost a month ago and subjected to custodial disappearance, still remains missing.
According to media sources, Manzoor Ahmad Khan was taken into custody by Indian troops from Kakarpati village of Kupwara district on August 31. Manzoor’s relative, Nasrullah Khan, who accompanied him at the time, was severely beaten up and later admitted to the Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, for kidney failure. Even after assuring the family over Manzoor’s return within a few days, there is no clue about his whereabouts, Manzoor’s father, Ghulam Qadir Khan, said in an interview. The army had called the family to the local Cherkoot camp on September 15, he said. “A few army officers including a colonel were there. They assured us that they would themselves bring Manzoor back in two to three days, but a week has passed, nothing has happened,” Ghulam Qadir Khan said. The army even told the family that Manzoor was alright and would be returned to the family within a few days, Manzoor’s brother, Zahid Khan, said. KASHMIR VOICE

Srinagar, September 23 (Kashmir Voice): In occupied Kashmir, the puppet authorities have booked a 37-year-old man from Islamabad town under draconian law, Public Safety Act by the authorities.
According to media sources, the family members of Gowhar Ahmad of Sarnal Bala locality of old town and a sales-cum-marketing manager by profession said that he was summoned by Indian police to Sadder Police Station, Islamabad, a few days back. They said that later he was booked under the PSA and was shifted to Kathua Jail in Jammu. The authorities have booked him under the black law for participating in anti-India demonstrations during the 2016 mass uprising as well as this year. The family has said that the authorities were framing Gowhar in false cases. “Gowhar has been earning his bread by working as sales manager. His schedule is very busy, but the police for unknown reasons have been harassing him for long,” said his father Ghulam Nabi. He said that police often summoned him and kept him under detention in interrogation centres and police stations. KASHMIR VOICE

Srinagar, September 23 (Kashmir Voice): In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of Hurriyat forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has welcomed the statement of Pakistan Prime Minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, at the UNGA wherein he raised Indian atrocities in the occupied territory and called for peaceful and early settlement the Kashmir dispute.
According to media sources, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a statement issued in Srinagar said, Pakistan has always raised the Kashmir dispute at international forums and advocated its settlement in accordance with the Kashmiris’ will and aspirations. He said the people of Kashmir deeply appreciate the diplomatic and moral support extended by Pakistan to their just cause. He said that as far as Kashmiri people and leadership were concerned, they had always wished for better and cordial relationship between India and Pakistan and sought resolution of all issues including the Kashmir conflict through dialogue. “New Delhi should realize that a military approach and use of brute force can never resolve the Kashmir issue, which is a political and a human issue and needs to be addressed through a bold approach and a meaningful dialogue process among all stakeholders – India, Pakistan and the people of Jammu and Kashmir,” he said. The Mirwaiz also thanked the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states for their full support to the Kashmiris’ just struggle for securing their right to self-determination at a recent OIC foreign ministers’ meet. He also thanked the OIC for inviting him to attend the meet which he couldn’t because of denial of travel documents by the Indian authorities. The Mirwaiz also castigated New Delhi for adopting double-standards while dealing with the Rohingya Muslims and asked that if Chakma and Tibet people are treated as refugees, what makes the Muslims of Myanmar illegal immigrants. He said it is sad that Rohingya Muslims who are fleeing after being persecuted are branded as illegal immigrants by the government of India. KASHMIR VOICE

Srinagar, September 23 (Kashmir Voice): In occupied Kashmir, Indian police have prepared over 1,000 dossiers to detain people under draconian law, Public Safety Act (PSA), says a media report.
According to media sources, the PSA allows the authorities to imprison a person for up to two years without trial. The report published in a Srinagar-based English daily Greater Kashmir said that during the past three years 1,059 dossiers were prepared to detain people under the PSA. It said that the highest number (812) of PSA dossiers was created by the police in 2016, which witnessed mass uprising in the wake of extrajudicial killing of popular youth leader, Burhan Wani. During the previous two years the police had submitted 157 (in 2015) and 90 (in 2014) dossiers to the district magistrates concerned for approval, the report said. Under the law, the district magistrates and divisional commissioners are the authorities who can approve of or reject the police dossiers. The rampant use of PSA, last year, came under severe criticism from global rights bodies. Enacted in the occupied territory in late 70s, the law had been rampantly used by the puppet authorities since 1989 when the Kashmiris intensified their ongoing liberation movement. From time to time, global rights bodies have urged the Indian government and its puppet authorities in occupied Kashmir to repeal the PSA. In 2011, the Amnesty International described the law as a “lawless law”. KASHMIR VOICE

Srinagar, September 23 (Kashmir Voice): In occupied Kashmir, senior APHC leader and the President of Anjuman Shari Shian, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi has stressed on the unity among Muslims living across the world particularly in the Kashmir Valley.
According to media sources, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi addressing a public gathering in Budgam paid rich tributes to the supreme sacrifices and services rendered by Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) for the cause of Islam and urged for following the teachings and path of the Imam. He also highlighted the faithfulness of companion of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA). Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi said that Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) sacrificed his life while fighting the anti-Islam and anti-humanity forces. KASHMIR VOICE