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APHC for early resolution of Kashmir issue

ISLAMABAD: The leaders of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) have drawn the attention of the diplomats, based in New Dehli, towards the urgency of resolving Kashmir issue to avert danger of nuclear catastrophe in the region, KMS reported.

Acting chairman of the APHC, Mir Waiz Umer Farooq, and senior APHC leader Khawaja Abdul Ghani Lone, during their two-week-long round of briefing to the diplomats, told them about the grave situation in occupied Kashmir.

The two leaders told them that President Clinton's positive outcome of South Asia visit depended on focusing his attention on the settlement of Kashmir issue.

The spokesman for the APHC said in Srinagar that a meeting of the Executive Council reviewed in detail the anxiety-causing situation, created by the Indian troops' orgy of death and destruction.

The meeting urged the world community to pressurise India to comply with the UN resolutions on Kashmir and find a peaceful settlement of the dispute through meaningful dialogue.

A large number of women also staged protest demonstrations in Srinagar against the arrest of Imam of mosque, Maulvi Mohammad Yaseen along with three innocent youth.

They staged sit-in in front of a police station and demanded release of the arrested Imam and young men. The arrest of an Imam of mosque, Maulvi Tariq Ahmad, in Pulwama, also sparked furious anti-India demonstrations.

According to the KMS, three numberdars of Pulwama district have resigned in a protest against forcing of them by troops to inform the military authorities about the movements of the Mujahideen. APP