SRINAGAR (Kashmir English): The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has paid glowing tributes to senior Hurriyat leader, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, on his fourth martyrdom anniversary in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) on Monday.
He died in Indian captivity on May 05, 2021. Sehrai, a senior APHC leader and Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir Chairman, who challenged India’s illegal occupation and political injustice in the occupied territory for decades died in Indian captivity on May 05, 2021.
The APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement issued in Srinagar, said Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai was icon and a symbol of resistance and embodiment of sacrifice.
He said Ashraf Sehrai’s life, sacrifices and struggle are a role model for coming generations of Kashmir.
He said the best way to pay tribute to the iconic leader is to follow his teachings and fulfill his justice mission.
The APHC said Ashraf Sehrai and other martyrs will continue to live in the Kashmiris’ hearts for his sacrifices for the cause of freedom.
The spokesman said the unresolved Kashmir dispute is the biggest hurdle in peace and political stability in the region, urging the United Nations to take solid steps for peaceful settlement of the lingering dispute.
The statement also urged people to unite for resolution of the Kashmir dispute.
He said, Hindutva-driven India’s BJP government and its proxy in IIOJK are directly responsible for Ashraf Sehrai’s custodial death and the extrajudicial killing of five youths in Bandipora, Kupwara, Uri and Kulgam areas, which once again proved that the BJP government is hell-bent on targeting the freedom-loving Kashmiri leadership.
The civil society members in Srinagar also paid tributes to the martyred senior APHC leader, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai and expressed solidarity with his family and the families of other martyrs and detainees.
Ashraf Sehrai was booked under draconian Public Safety Act, on July 12, 2020 after his arrest from Srinagar and shifted to Udhampur Jail in Jammu. He was slow poisoned in the jail.
His condition deteriorated in jail and was not given timely access to doctor. He was only shifted to a hospital in Jammu on May 4 where he died next day.
His family members were kept unaware of his health condition.
Ashraf Sehrai’s son, Junaid Sehrai, who also rejected Indian occupation of the motherland and its state terrorism, was also martyred by the Indian troops during cordon and search operation in Srinagar in May, 2020.
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On the other hand, the APHC AJK convenor, Ghulam Muhammad Safi, Advocate Parvaiz Ahmed Shah, Mushtaq Ahmed But and other while paying homage to Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai said that the Kashmiris will continue to see him as icon of resistance against Indian occupation.
They said the martyred leader will continue to live in the Kashmiris’ hearts for his sacrifices for the freedom cause.
APHC AJK leader, Mehmood Ahmed Saghar maintained that Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai devoted his entire life to the Kashmiris’ freedom and sacrificed everything including his own life and his beloved son for the noble cause.
