Incarcerated Shabbir Shah scripting new history of resistance: DFP.

ISLAMABAD -- The Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) has said that by facing the continued illegal detention with resolve, its Chairman, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, was scripting a new history of resistance against India's Illegal Occupation of Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

The DFP in a statement issued in Srinagar saluted Shabbir Ahmad Shah's resolve to lead the ongoing freedom movement, despite facing political victimization of the Indian government. It said in his 67 years of his life, Shabbir Shah had to spend 36 years in prisons, detention and interrogation centers within and outside the Kashmir Valley because of his political beliefs. 'Shabbir Shah has become icon of the ongoing movement by completing 36 years in prison from time to time and five consecutive years of captivity in the notorious Tihar jail,' it said, reported.

The statement maintained that being a strong advocate of Kashmiris' right to self-determination, Shabbir Shah had always sought a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute in line with UN Security Council resolutions. It said he never accepted India's illegal hold on Kashmir and he never changed that ideology.

The DFP said Shabbir Shah had chosen the path of struggle as his way of living and he was steadfastly writing a new history of political resistance. It said, despite suffering from multiple acute ailments, Shabbir Shah stood firm and undeterred on his stance...

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