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Terming the statement of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti as a “blatant lie”, the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) Wednesday made it clear that senior pro-freedom leader

HCJK senior leader Shabir Shah after meeting Pakistan High Commissioner addressing media at his headquarter in uptown Srinagar.
HCJK senior leader Shabir Shah after meeting Pakistan High Commissioner addressing media at his headquarter in uptown Srinagar.

Ahmad Shah was “never ever given a passport to travel abroad.”

A DFP spokesperson in a statement rebuffed the claims of PDP President that the Government of India or Jammu and Kashmir has issued passport to Shabir Ahmad Shah and that he travels abroad.

“Though Shabir Ahmad Shah was from time to time invited by various countries including European nations, Pakistan, Sweden and Arab countries but lack of passport prevented him from travelling abroad and participating in all the events,” the spokesperson said, adding that Shah has never travelled abroad.

He further said, “Whenever Shabir Ahmad Shah approached in this regard, keeping in view the disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir, he never acknowledged himself as ‘Indian’ in the nationality column of passport and made it clear that he is son of a soil – a Kashmiri. Due to such reasons, Shabir Ahmad Shah was never issued travel documents.”

Criticizing the ‘misleading’ statement of Mehbooba Mufti, the DFP spokesperson said she (Mufti) should come clean by admitting that Shabir Ahmad Shah was denied the passport due to his not acknowledging himself as Indian citizen.

Meanwhile, Freedom Party has termed the Government of India’s decision of approaching the United Nations against the resistance leader Syed Salahuddin as “sheer frustration” and said such activities against resistance leaders by India cannot affect the ongoing freedom movement, in any way.

Terming the role played by Syed Salahuddin vis-à-vis Kashmir movement as “justifiable and legal”, the spokesperson said India has no right to approach the UN as “it itself defies the resolutions of the same institution by not implementing them.”

“India is rebelling against the resolutions passed in the same world institution which guarantees the right of self-determination to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and is choking the voices of millions of Kashmiri people with the military might. The representatives of the so-called world’s largest democracy instead of resorting to such non-sense should focus on the prime issue – of resolving the Kashmir dispute.”

Freedom Party also said it has taken strong notice of the highhandedness and hooliganism of Village Defence Committees (VDCs) in Chenab region of Jammu province and said that by arming these VDC goons, the communal tensions are being orchestrated in the area to harass the Muslims living there.

“All the rulers, whether current or previous – are murderers. In Ramban and its adjacent areas, the lives and properties of the people are at stake where VDC goons loot them at gunpoint and so-called government acts as mute spectator. This is obviously a ‘state terrorism’ and human rights bodies should take strong cognizance of such issue and hold the culprits, whosoever, accountable,” the DFP spokesperson added.

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