Srinagar, July 12: In connection with commemoration of 13 July martyrs, the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq today convened a seminar titled “13 july 1931- beginning of the chapter of freedom struggle” at hurriyat headquarters located in Rajbagh.

Various participants including hurriyat leaders spoke on the occasion on the given topic.

Moulana Abbas Ansari, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza, Syed Saleem Geelani Javaid Ahmad Mir, Zaffar Akbar Bhat, Hilal Ahmad war, Shahid Saleem, Ghulam Hassan spoke in detail about the July 13, May 1931 incident.

Senior hurriyat leaders including Prof Abdul Gani Bhat, Moulana Abbas Ansari, Abdul majid Banday, Advocate Shahid-ul-Islam,Imtiyaz Reshi, GN Nagoo, Khaleel Ahmad Khaleel, Abdul Manan Bukhari, Hakim Abdul Rashid, Syed BAshir Andrabi, GN Warand and sofi Mushtaq Ahmad were also present on the occasion

Senior hurriyat leader Hakim Abdul Rashid read out the resolution before the participants.



Paying glorious tributes to July 13 martyrs, Mirwaiz stated that the martyrs laid their lives to end the authoritarian rules which was subjecting Kashmiris to interminable sufferings. He said that the struggle started by the martyrs still continues, adding, the struggle would continue till their mission is fulfilled. Despite 83 years of passing this incident, he stated that several such incidents were repeated again and again. Unlike the despotic rulers of 1931, Mirwaiz stated that Kashmiris are being fought by the Indian union on several fronts.

Coming heavily on pro-Indian parties, APHC Chairman stated that those people who claim to be democratic and want to take lead in paying tributes to July 13 martyrs were actually the main culprit who got Kashmir plunged into authoritarian rule after its ancestors successfully fought against the despotic monarchs. He said army and police were masking the democracy in Kashmir and it was by shear use of force that our political social and religious activities were restricted. He said in 1947, India and Pakistan got independence, but independence of Kashmir was usurped.

Mirwaiz stated that Kashmiris were optimistic that new government in India would treat Kashmir as a political and human issue. However, he stated that instead of displaying political maturity, like past, the new dispensation too was treating Kashmir as an economic issue. He stated that truth was that Kashmiris never accepted the Indian suzerainty, adding, they have already rejected the financial and economic grant as a substitute to freedom.



On the occasion, APHC Chairman announced that hurriyat would soon call an intra regional conference during which representatives from all the five regions of jammu and Kashmir would participate to build a consensus and chalk out the future strategy in connection the Kashmir solution.

Mirwaiz also stressed upon the UN and OIC to play their role instead of becoming ally to the western countries. He stated that Palestinians were being bombed by Israleis, but UN was silent. He further stated that situation continues to be worst in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Palestine, but OIC has not spoken a word.

APHC Chairman said that strike on July 13 would not only be observed to commemorate the July 13 martyrs, but also against the aggression of Israelis against the Palestinians. He stated that Kashmiris would protests against the Israeli Barbarism.