Arif Shahid murder- KNP announced 5 day hunger strike outside Pakistani
High Commission
London 15
May 2013
Kashmir National Party leaders have strongly condemned the brutal murder
of Kashmiri nationalist leader Arif Shahid in Pakistan on 13 May 2013.
The KNP leaders said, ‘The deceased leader was a true Kashmiri and
throughout his life he struggled against those who occupied his motherland. He
was a brave soldier of struggle of unification and independence of forcibly
divided Jammu and Kashmir’.
The KNP leaders further said, ‘He always spoke for the oppressed and
victimised people of Jammu and Kashmir, and strongly advocated for rights of
the people of Gilgit Baltistan as well. He was elected the Chairman of All
Parties National Alliance which opposed the Pakistani occupation of Azad
Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan; and wanted closer ties between people of these
two regions’.
‘It looks those forces which did not like his struggle, finally
eliminated him to send the message that they will not tolerate true Kashmiri
nationalist struggle on this side of the Line of Control’, the KNP leaders
added.
KNP leaders said we want to show complete solidarity with the deceased,
his family and the Jammu Kashmir National Liberation Conference, a party Arif
Shahid was heading; and we will observe 5 days hunger strike outside
the Pakistani High Commission in London. The hunger strike will start at 9am on
Monday 20 May 2013; and for this purpose all necessary arrangements
have been made.
The KNP leaders, Abbas Butt, Dr Shabir Choudhry, Zubair Ansari, Sarwar
Hussain, Asim Mirza, Basharat Khan, Abdul Ghafar Shapal, Mohammed Ishtiaq, Raja
Zahoor, Mohammed Shoaib, Ch Razaq, Mohammed Anees, Zile Hussain Naqvi, Hamid
Butt, Mohammed Nadeem and others have demanded full and impartial investigation
of this callous murder that the culprits could be apprehended and appropriately
punished.
Issued by Dr Shabir Choudhry
Email: drshabirchoudhry@gmail.com
Contacts: Abbas Butt: 0794 9812543
Dr Shabir Choudhry: 0779 094 2471
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