Srinagar
Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday strongly condemned the attempt by government forces to burn residential houses in Gundibagh Kakapora during the night hours when the dwellers were fast asleep.
The spokesman said that it was a planned attempt to burn these houses along with the respective families. Some days back these very forces vandalized some residential houses at Sugan, Shopian and cut a number of apple trees. These forces have let loose a reign of terror throughout the valley turning the life of the common people into a hell. Hundreds of innocent people mostly youth are also languishing in different jails and police stations and most of them have secured the release orders from the courts which are not at all honoured by the police authorities who claim to be the custodians of law and the protectors of the human rights.
The spokesman added that a number of people have been kept in police lockups and are being involved in false cases in order to delay their release. Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Asiya Andrabi along with her two aides has not been released from the women’s police station Rambagh despite release orders from the court.
Ameer Tehsil Islamabad Gulzar Ahmad Bhat of Uranhal, Bijbehara is being shifted from one police station to another. His son too is detained with him at police post Sangam. Jama’at also expresses its deep anguish over the desecration of graves by government forces which is quite against the human ethics and civilized legal norms. The law is not being followed as it is but the directions of police officers have become the law of the land which is a grave and brutal violation of the human rights.
Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir while vehemently condemning these human rights violations appeals the international and local human rights bodies and forums to take serious cognizance of this sordid situation and take effective steps and proper action against these unruly authorities who are involved in it. Jama’at also demands the unconditional release of all detainees and arrestees during the current month of Ramadhan.
