SRINAGAR (UNEDITED): Father of Kashmiri nation Shaheed Mohammad Maqbal Butt is a symbol of our freedom struggle and to achieve freedom, we need to tread the path shown by our father of nation. This was stated by the speakers of a seminar tilted “martyrdom of Maqbool Butt and our responsibilities” held at National press club Islamabad Pakistan. Presided over by Supreme Head JKLF, Amanullah Khan, the seminar was attended by various JKLF leaders, activists, and leaders from Azad Kashmir and APHC, media person along with intellectuals and writers also participated in the seminar.
Among The key speakers who paid tributes to Shaheed Mohammad Maqbool Butt where Dr. Toqeer Gilani, Saleem Haroon, Khuwaja Saifudin, Abid Shakoor Gilgati Mrs. Tahira Toqeer , Sardar Khalid Ibrahim (Leader Peoples Party Jammu Kashmir), Noor-ul-Bari (Naib-e-Ameer Jamat-e-Islami AJK), Syed Yousuf Naseem (Convener APHC-M), Gh. Muhammad Safi (Convener APHC-G), Mehmood Ahmed Sagar (Leader JKHC-S) , Abdul Majeed Malik (leader APHC from Jammu) and JKLF spokesman Mohammad Rafiq Dar.The seminar was organized on the 70th birthday of Shaheed baba I Quoam Mohammad Maqbool Butt. The participants at the end of seminar adopted a resolution unanimously that is as under:
1. This seminar while paying tributes to Shaheed Maqbool Butt and Shaheed Afzal Guroo reiterates its pledge to take forward the mission of these martyrs.
2. The seminar stresses upon India to handover the mortal remains of Shaheed Mohammad Maqbool Butt and Shaheed Afzal Guroo to Kashmiris so that these martyrs are buried according to Islamic traditions.
3. participants of seminar are of the opinion that Jammu Kashmir is a indivisible political unity and should be given complete freedom .division of Jammu Kashmir and half hearted steps or resolutions is not acceptable to the people of Jammu Kashmir.
4. Participants hail the passion of the people of Jammu Kashmir who are tolerating difficult conditions; oppression and torture by Indian state, but despite all these hardships are actively fighting for the freedom of Jammu Kashmir.
5. The participants are of the opinion that Kashmir issue is not an ordinary issue neither is this border dispute between India and Pakistan. This dispute is related to the determination of future of millions of Kashmiris.this dispute because of oppression and torture by Indians force on Kashmiris has taken the shape of a worst conflict that needs a priority based ,lashing permanent solution based on justice
5. Participants with one voice said that this conflict can be resolved by accepting the Unlimited right to self-determination for the people of Jammu Kashmir and for this a meaningful, serious and peaceful negotiations between India and Pakistan and Kashmiris is the need of the hour.
6. Leadership resolved that Kashmir Valley, Jammu, Ladakh, Azad Kashmir and Gilgat Baltistan are one unit and all these areas constitute the state of Jammu Kashmir (the disputed territory). Any change in demography will not be acceptable to the people of Jammu Kashmir
7. Participants while condemning the judicial terrorism unleashed by India against Kashmiris, because of which hundreds we languishing in Indian jails, Pro resistance leaders, activists and youth are arrested on daily basis, religious processions are banned , Judicial murders , Black laws and mass killings have became the order of the day, appealed international community to take notice of all this and take immediate steps to resolve the Jammu Kashmir dispute, so that durable peace is established in south Asia.