Kashmir an internationally acknowledged dispute: Malik

ISLAMABAD, Dec 18 (APP): The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation
Front Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik in occupied Kashmir, has said
that Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally accepted dispute,
which even has been acknowledged by the Parliament of India.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the pledges made to
Kashmiris by Indian leaders including first Indian Prime Minister,
Jawahar Lal Nehru bear testimony to the fact of it being a dispute
that needs a resolution.
While reacting to the Indian Supreme Court’s verdict in
which it had said that Kashmiris were citizens of India and that
Jammu Kashmir had no vestige of sovereignty outside the
constitution of India, Muhammad Yasin Malik in a statement termed
the verdict of no consequence.
The JKLF Chief said no parliament or court can change the
status of a disputed territory by passing any law or verdict and
when people of a land resolve to strive for freedom, court
verdicts and laws never succeed to break their will.
Yasin Malik said that “Great Britain kept India under its
occupation for more than two hundred years and British laws and
courts used to call India as integral part of British Empire but
Indian independence in 1947 exterminated all those laws and
verdicts.”
He strongly condemned the ongoing oppression in Kashmir.
Terming the situation in south Kashmir as act of vengeance, he
said that the regime was taking revenge from the common people of
Kashmir especially in south Kashmir and have left their forces and
police open to terrorize people in what so ever manner they intend
to.
Meanwhile, the High Court Bar Association of occupied
Kashmir in an Executive Committee meeting in Srinagar expressed
its serious concern over the judgment of the Indian Supreme Court,
handed down by the court on Friday in an appeal filed by Indian
State Bank against the judgment of the High Court of occupied
Kashmir.
Whereby it had held that the provisions of the
Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and
Enforcement of Security Interest Act (SARFAESI Act), are not
applicable to J&K and therefore, the notices issued by the Bank
under section 13 of the SARFAESI Act, are invalid.
The member Association also expressed its surprise over the
statement of Shri Sunil Fernandes, who represented the territory
before the Supreme Court, stating that because the very
application of the SARFAESI Act to J &K was debatable in the
context of Article 370 of the Constitution of India.
The Bar members also condemned the re-arrest of Aasiya
Andrabi in a false and frivolous case.