Saghar denounces confiscation of Shabbir Shah's home-cum-office by Indian authorities.

ISLAMABAD -- Convener All Parties Hurriyat Conference AJK chapter and acting chairman Democratic Freedom Party Mehmood Ahmed Saghar here on Saturday strongly condemned the Indian Enforcement Directorate (IED) for confiscating the house of the incarcerated party chairman Shabbir Ahmad Shah in Srinagar.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, Sagar termed it a pressure tactic on the part of India's racist regime. He said attaching of Shah's home-cum office was a colonial-era tactic the BJP has since long been using to break the political will of Shabir Ahmed Shah and other Hurriyat leaders who refused to accept the government's concocted narrative on Kashmir and remained stick to their principled stance.

He said that the DFP chief has been one of the worst victims of India's vendetta politics, adding it was nothing new for Shah who has been facing all this right from his childhood days. 'Such tactics won't deter Shah Sahib from pursuing the noble cause for which he had devoted his entire life', the DFP leader said.

He, however, maintained that it was unfortunate that the Modi government was shamelessly using these so-called agencies to harass and humiliate the families of hurriyat leaders and activists. Sagar said the Modi government had let loose its so-called NIA and EDA authorities to resistance leaders in order to dent their public image.

Referring to the Indian government's three-prong strategy to eliminate Hurriyat leadership from the scene, Saghar said, 'First they ran a mega smear campaign, which was followed by a massive crackdown to malign Hurriyat leaders and now they have virtually started to confiscate their properties they have lawfully inherited from their parents'.He said that Hurriyat leaders could not be intimidated by such mean tactics. Urging India to stop its policy of persecuting Kashmiris just for raising their legitimate demands, Saghar said that India must accept ground reality and take steps to settle the lingering Kashmir dispute in accordance with the United Nations resolutions.

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