Srinagar, July 21: The acting chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G), Ghulam Nabi Sumjhi, has urged people to hold peaceful sit-in protests on July 22, and offer Friday prayers at district headquarters on July 23.
 “Kashmir issue is on the top of the agenda of United Nations and the standing UN resolutions on this issue amply prove that it is yet to be resolved. We want an immediate end to the political unease in the subcontinent and a strong friendly relationship between India and Pakistan but this is only possible when serious and sincere steps are taken to resolve Kashmir issue,” Sumjhi said in a statement on Wednesday.
 Sumjhi termed the bilateral talks between India and Pakistan as futile and unacceptable. “Kashmiris are a basic party to the dispute and cannot be ignored,” he added. 
 He said that Kashmiris had burnt their all boats and would continue their struggle till the objective of their right of self-determination was realized.
 He appealed to all the justice-loving nations of world and the members nations of UNO to make it clear to India to stop human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir and allow its people to decide their future before seeking permanent membership in the Security Council.
 Flaying ruling National Conference for, what he said, using “coercive methods and vile tactics” to muzzle the popular voice of Kashmiris, Sumjhi said it (NC) had always been in the fore front to ‘enslave’ Kashmiris.
  Meanwhile, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu Kashmir has termed the yesterday’s statement of the Union home secretary G K Pillia as ‘frustration’ of the government of India. “Everyone including all the pro-India political parties and leaders are crying hoarse that the ongoing struggle for resolution of Kashmir issue is a political problem and should be settled politically and that it has nothing to do with the development, employment or any economic package. The ongoing struggle will continue until India announces Kashmir as a dispute, revoke all draconian laws including AFSPA and PSA, release all detainees, withdraw its troops and takes effective for resolving Kashmir issue in the light of standing UN Resolutions,” said a spokesman of the Tehreek in a statement today.

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