Srinagar: Prime Minister Kashmir administered Kashmir (PaK) Raja Farooq Haider has written a letter to the United Nations calling for the release of JKLF chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, reports said on Tuesday.
Malik is undergoing detention since July 8.
In the letter addressed to secretary general Ban Ki Moon, the prime minister of PaK requested the UN to take notice of “illegal detention” of Yasin Malik. The letter said that Malik was critically ill.
Malik’s Pakistani wife Mishal Mulick had been saying that her incarcerated husband is denied medical treatment.
Octogenarian Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Malik are Spearheading the ongoing agitation which started day after the killing of militant commander Burhan Wani on July 8.
While Geelani is undergoing house detention, Mirwaiz and Malik have been detained in jails.
Haider in a copy of the letter obtained by Dawn News claimed that Malik’s health has considerably deteriorated since he was kept in solitary confinement by Indian authorities after his arrest on July 8, the same day that Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed by Indian forces.
“Doctors advised authorities many times to take care of his health, but till Oct 8, he was kept in a cell at the Joint Interrogation Cell, Humhama,” he said, adding that the JKLF leader was shifted to Srinagar’s Central Jail on Oct 9.
Malik has lost over 15 kilograms over the past two months according to family sources, he said. “Last week, he was taken to the hospital in the Indian Army’s custody, where his medical tests were conducted and the results are alarming.
“His personal cardiologist examined him and advised check-ups for his heart, kidneys and other ailments. His kidney stone has enlarged, risking his kidney’s function,” Haider said.
The AJK president called on Ban Ki-moon to take notice of violence in held Kashmir, and “prevail upon the Indian authorities to immediately allow him [Yasin Malik] medical treatment and access to his family.”
Terming the Kashmir dispute as the oldest unresolved international conflict in the world today, Haider said, “India’s forcible occupation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 is the main cause of the conflict.”
“The freedom movement in held Kashmir is rooted in the struggle of its people for the exercise of their right to self-determination,” he said. Dawn News