Lawyers Stage Pen-down Strike Against Designation Of Syed Salahuddin As Global Terrorist By US

MIRPUR (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 05th Jul, 2017 ) , July 5 (APP): Legal fraternity across Azad Jammu and Kashmir observed pen-down strike by boycotting the courts on Wednesday here to mark their extreme indignation against the executive order issued by Washington to designate veteran Kashmiri freedom fighter Syed Salahuddin as a global terrorist.

Call for the strike was given by Azad Jammu and Kashmir Bar Council not only to register resentment against US President Trump's order about designation of Syed Sallahuddin as a terrorist, but also to protest against the recent duo Trump-Modi ties in respect of defaming the Kashmiris' just and principled struggle for freedom.

The lawyers held rallies and staged demonstrations at all tehsil and district headquarters by boycotting the courts to condemn the injustice demonstrated by the US administration mere to appease New Delhi.

Addressing the protest rallies, the lawyers including leaders of AJK Supreme Court Bar Association, AJK High Court Bar Association, District and Tehsil Bar Associations vehemently condemned the continued massacre of innocent Kashmiri�s, increased human rights abuses through worst degrees of state terrorism by the Indian occupational forces in the Indian held Jammu and Kashmir.

They paid rich tribute to the valiant Kashmiri martyrs for giving sacrifices of their lives for the noble cause of liberation of their motherland from the clutches of the forced and unlawful Indian rule.

Addressing a news conference at Kashmir Press Club Mirpur and the lawyers protest rally, speakers including Vice Chairman AJK Bar Council Shoukat Ali Kiyani Advocate, President AJK Supreme Court Bar Association Syed Nishat Hussain Kazmi, Advocate, President Mirpur Bar Association Shabir Sharif Advocate, former President of AJK Bar Council Raja Khalid Mahmood, Mian Sultan Mahmood Advocate, ex DBA President Muzaffar Ali Zaffar and others said that no power on earth including the United States could undermine Kashmiri�s struggle for freedom through such hostile and coercive tactics.

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