SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K), All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leaders and organizations have paid glowing tributes to senior APHC leader and Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir Chairman Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai on his second martyrdom anniversary.
According to Kashmir Media Service, senior APHC leader, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai died in Indian police custody in Jammu on May 5, 2021.
The APHC leaders, including Abdul Ahad Parra, Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, Zamrooda Habib, Yasmeen Raja, Farida Behanji, Syed Bashir Andrabi, Javed Ahmed Mir, Jameel Ahmad Mir, Dr Musaib, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Youth Forum and Jammu and Kashmir Pir Panjal Freedom Movement Chairman Israr Ahmed in their separate statements issued in Srinagar said that the martyrdom of Ashraf Sehrai and sacrifices of other Kashmiri martyrs should not be forgotten and their mission for right to self-determination would be accomplished at all costs.
The statements said the people who were responsible for his custodial death are yet to be brought to justice and reiterated that the people of Kashmir would continue their true demand of right to self-determination till complete success. It said that the Indian government was directly responsible for Sehrai’s custodial murder. It added that there was dire need to have a credible investigation into the incident to ascertain the real facts that led to the tragic death of the Kashmiri leader. Meanwhile, APHC-AJK chapter paid homage to Shaheed Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai on the occasion of his second death anniversary.
APHC-AJK chapter Convener Mahmood Ahmed Saghar, General Secretary Sheikh Abdulmatin and Information Secretary Imtiaz Wani in a joint statement issued in Islamabad strongly condemned the custodial killing of senior APHC leader Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai in Udhampur jail by the Modi-led fascist Indian government.
They called the death of Shaheed Muhammad Ashraf Sahrai as an act of deliberate custodial killing for which full responsibility rests on the fascist Modi-led Indian government.
They also urged the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to take serious notice of the mysterious death of the senior APHC leader in jail and appealed to the international community to increase pressure on India to stop human rights violations in IIOJK.
