India’s decision to outlaw a second Kashmiri political party is denounced by Pakistan
Pakistan denounced the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir (TeH) decision on Monday, calling it a “subjugation of Kashmiris” and denouncing it as an illegal association for a period of five years.
India had proclaimed the TeH to be a “unlawful association” earlier in the day.
The nation’s anti-terror statute has imposed a five-year ban on the party.
According to a statement from the Foreign Office, “India’s campaign to suppress dissent, subjugate the Kashmiri people, and consolidate its occupation of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) includes the banning of political parties.”
The FO requested that India honour the UN Security Council’s resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir and free all political prisoners and dissidents.
In less than a week, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) has outlawed a second Kashmiri party, the TeH. Its ban brings the total number of political groups in Kashmir that are banned to six.
Legendary Kashmiri politician Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who died in 2021 after a lengthy period of house detention, formed the party. The occupation authorities violently took his lifeless body, and his loved ones were not let to attend his funeral.
The sixth pro-freedom party to be outlawed in the area is Tehreek-e-Hurriyat.
A section of the Muslim League Jammu Kashmir led by the pro-freedom activist Masarat Alam Bhat, who is detained, was banned by New Delhi last week on similar “charges.”
It had earlier outlawed Shabir Shah, the imprisoned pro-freedom leader, and his Democratic Freedom Party.
The Democratic Freedom Party, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, and Muslim League Jammu Kashmir are members of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, which is an association of around twenty-two pro-freedom organizations functioning in IIOJK.
Jamaat-e-Islami, the main socio-economic-political party in the region, and the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, led by Muhammad Yasin Malik, who is incarcerated in Tihar Jail, were both outlawed in 2019 by New Delhi.
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