APHC submits protest memorandum at UN office.ISLAMABAD, April 30, 2009 (Balochistan Times) -- A delegation of All Parties Hurriyat Conference The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (formed March 10, 1993) is a political front formed as an alliance of 26 political, social and religious organizations in Kashmir. It is a political front created to further the cause of Kashmiri separatism. "Hurriyat" in Urdu means "freedom". (APHC) AJK Chapter Thursday visited the UNMOGIP and handed over a protest memorandum over the so-called elections in occupied Kashmir to be sent to UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon. A delegation of APHC AJK Chapter led by Convener Muhammad Farooq Rehmani. The commander of the military observers group received the memorandum and assured that the same would be sent to the UN Chief at New York. The memorandum urged upon the UN Chief to take cognizance The power, authority, and ability of a judge to determine a particular legal matter. A judge's decision to take note of or deal with a cause. That which is cognizable to a judge is within the scope of his or her jurisdiction. of the current turmoil, large scale arrests and human rights violations by India which violated UN resolutions on Kashmir and deprived the Kashmiris of their birth right - the right of self determination. The memorandum also informed the UN Chief of over 600,000 Indian troops stationed to curb the voice of Kashmiris by the use draconian laws like the law of Armed Forces Special Powers Act The Special Powers Act came into force in 1971 under orders of Northern Ireland Prime Minister Brian Faulkner as a means of controlling spiralling terrorist activity in Northern Ireland. The Act authorised internment of those suspected to be involved in terrorism. . It further added that government of India The Government of India (Hindi: भारत सरकार [3]Bhārat Sarkār), officially referred to as the Union Government, and commonly as Central Government had resorted to large scale arrests of APHC leaders and workers in Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir: see Kashmir. Jammu and Kashmir State (pop., 2001: 10,143,700), northern India. With an area of 39,146 sq mi (101,387 sq km), it occupies the southern portion of the Kashmir region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent and is . The delegation comprised on the following executive members of APHC; Ishtiaq Hameed, Ghulam Nabi Nowsheri, Abdul Majeed Mir, Showkat Hussain Bhatt, Muhammad Hussain Khateeb, Rashid Wani and Ghulam Muhammad Safi. (THROUGH ASIA PULSE) |
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