APHC- AJK condemns leaders illegal detention in IHK.ISLAMABAD, August 28, 2009 (Balochistan Times): The All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Azad Jammu Kashmir chapter (APHC-AJK) has strongly condemned the continued illegal detention of Hurriyet leaders and gross violations of human rights by Indian troops in occupied Kashmir. An extra-ordinary meeting of the Executive Council of the APHC-AJK was held in Islamabad, today, with Acting Convenor, Mehmood Ahmad Saghar in chair. The participants of the meeting expressing concern over the discovery of unnamed graves in the occupied territory Territory under the authority and effective control of a belligerent armed force. The term is not applicable to territory being administered pursuant to peace terms, treaty, or other agreement, express or implied, with the civil authority of the territory. See also civil affairs agreement. apprehended that innocent Kashmiri youth could have been buried in these graves after being killed in custody. On the occasion, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi presented a review of draconian laws draconian laws included severe punishments prescribed by Draco, their codifier. [Gk. Hist.: NCE, 791] See : Harshness enforced in occupied Kashmir. He said that the laws were against the UN conventions and Indian atrocities had increased due to these laws. He said that Hurriyet leaders including Shabbir Ahmad Shah Ahmad Shah (äkhmäd` shä`), c.1723–1773, Afghan ruler (1747–73), founder of the Durani dynasty. His success in commanding Afghan forces in India for Nadir Shah of Iran won him the rule of Afghanistan on Nadir's death (1747). and Nayeem Ahmad Khan were behind the bars under the draconian laws, which was unjust. The meeting stressed the world community to play its role to impress upon India to stop human rights violations in the occupied territory and demanded of the United Nations to appoint a representative on 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 to know the ground reality. (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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