LeT, UJC support Nov 19 strike call against Faktoo verdict

Srinagar: Descirbing the decision of state High Court against Dr. Qasim Faktoo as contrary to the principles of human justice and a gross human rights violation, United Jihad Council (UJC) and Lashkar e Toiba (LeT) have extended support to the Hurriyat (G) and People’s Political Party shut down call on 19 November.

According to UJC statement issued to a local news agency, UJC Supremo Sayed Sallahudin has said that the history has been repeated as the current Chief Minister’s father had signed the documents approving the capital punishment to Maqbool Bhat, and the son has fulfilled his desire to keep Dr. Faktoo behind the bars for entire life. “These tactics will make the candle of freedom more luminous and the time will come when thee people will have to stand before the public as accused to answer for their sins”, reads the statement quoting Sallahudin.
Sallahudin has extended sympathies with Asiya Andrabi and saluted the sacrifices of various political detainees.
Meanwhile, Lashkar e Toiba Spokesperson Dr. Abdullah Ghaznavi in a telephonic statement to a local news agency said committing human rights violations has become the daily business of the government. “The decision of court is less about politics and more about revenge”, Ghaznavi quoted Operations Chief of LeT as having said. Extending its support to the shut down call on 19th November, he appealed people to make the call successful.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) has said the court decision is based political vendetta, aimed at suppressing the legitimate freedom struggle of Kashmiris. In a statement to a local news agency, the DFP leader Mohammd Abdullah Tari said different separatist organizations and Hurriyat Conference should consult legal experts to decide on future course of action to counter such measures.
The Jammat e Islami today said the court, in the garb of the judgment, had given the state government a license to keep Dr Faktoo in Prison for his lifetime.
“He had approached the High Court of J&K with the hope that keeping a positive jail record, he might get some relief in terms of the remission of the punishment but the court instead gave a license to the govt. to keep him in prison till his death. The local govt. being opposed to his release might have heaved a sigh of relief on the court judgement”, the Jammat Spokesperson Advocate Zahid Ali said in a statement here.
He said ‘the judgment may even hang the fate of other life convicts who were expecting a relief according to the precedent of being released even before the completion of 14 years subject to keeping a good jail record. This judgement can have far reaching consequences and the administration can apply it whimsically as the recommendations of the Review Board even have lost all relevance in deciding the fate of the prisoners in the light of judgement.”
“It appears that the court has lost sight of the fact that conviction of Dr. Qasim stands merely on the confessional statements of the accused before the police under Sec 15 of the said Act which has been declared a harshest part of the law by all the legal luminaries and the human rights champions of every hue and colour. Now all such prisoners have been kept at the mercy of the govt”
“Jamat – e Islami J&K feels that it is the second judgement which has caused an alarm in the public after the recent Talaq verdict and gives unbridled powers to the executive leaving a great scope for their abuse or misuse”