{"id":326,"date":"2014-03-14T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/hcjk-election-boycott-campaign-reaches-sopore\/"},"modified":"2014-03-14T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T15:20:00","slug":"hcjk-election-boycott-campaign-reaches-sopore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"HCJK election boycott campaign reaches Sopore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">GoI resorting to \u2018divide and rule\u2019 policy in JK<\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>Srinagar:<\/b> As part of its election boycott campaign Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir (HCJK) leaders&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;addressed a huge gathering at Bomai, Sopore in north Kashmir.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">According to a statement issued to KNS, the leaders led by Shabir Ahmad Shah said that by involving the people of Kashmir in so-called elections India can never suppress our freedom movement.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cThe freedom movement is aimed at creating self-reliance among people by liberating the nation from the clutches of slavery while as the so-called power politics is the game-plan of the elements who exploit the nation for their petty self interests,\u201d Shabir Ahmad Shah while addressing the gathering said. Other Hurriyat leaders who spoke on the occasion included Mushtaq ul Islam, Shabir Ahmad Dar, Muhammad Yusuf Naqash, Wajahat Quereshi and Muhammad Yasin Ataai.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Shah said that living nations do not sacrifice their \u201cfreedom\u201d for petty interests. He said we have laid innumerous sacrifices so as to live with honour and dignity at par with other free nations. \u201cSo, we call for complete boycott of upcoming parliamentary and assembly polls to honour the precious blood laid by our martyrs like Shaheed Muhammad Maqbool Bhat and Shaheed Muhammad Afzal Guru,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Warning people against the ill designs of pro-India politicians, Shah said they are applying \u201cdivide and rule\u201d policy here by turning people against each other on geographical, linguistic, religious and racial lines but our freedom struggle is aimed at liberating all the sections of Jammu and Kashmir State from the forcible occupation of India.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Commenting on the state terrorism leashed upon the length and breadth of the valley, Shah said despite the ill treatment of political prisoners in jails, miseries of the parents of disappeared people and frequent arrests of Hurriyat activists, the people of Kashmir are filled with the spirit of freedom.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Shabir Ahmad Shah also expressed satisfaction and gratitude to the Government of Pakistan for its unrelenting political, moral and diplomatic support to Kashmiris.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cIt is due to the endeavours of Pakistan that oppression and atrocities inflicted by India on Kashmiri people were highlighted at international level. Our freedom movement is in dire need of that country\u2019s every support and we hope that Pakistan will continue fulfilling its responsibilities towards Kashmir issue,\u201d Shah said. Shah also urged Hurriyat leaders to play active role in creating awareness among people with regards to anti-movement propagandas of pro-India elements.&nbsp; (KNS)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoI resorting to \u2018divide and rule\u2019 policy in JK Srinagar: As part of its election boycott campaign Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir (HCJK) leaders&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;addressed a huge gathering at Bomai, Sopore in north Kashmir. According to a statement issued to KNS, the leaders led by Shabir Ahmad Shah said that by involving the people of Kashmir in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}