All Parties Hurriyat Conference has strongly condemned to the arrest and harassment of Kashmiri people during cordon and search operations in Srinagar and other areas of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement in Srinagar, APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas said the continued search operations, summoning youth to the police stations and arresting hundreds by Indian forces have created fear among the people of the territory. He said arbitrary arrests of people in different areas of Srinagar, Bandipore, Rajouri and other districts of the territory are aimed at terrorizing the peace and freedom-loving Kashmiris.

He said that the APHC with the backing of all Hurriyat leaders and the people of the territory will not let the struggle for their rights and freedom.

He urged the Kashmiris to remain united and firm to defeat all conspiracies being hatched by the occupying regime. He said now New Delhi is again holding the Indian Lok Sabha elections in an attempt to divert the attention of the international community from the actual issue of Kashmir, which is yet to be resolved as per the United Nations resolutions.