MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 27: The top leader of an alliance of Kashmiri militant groups on Wednesday warned that unrelenting Indian atrocities in Indian-held Kashmir could compel thousands of people in Azad Kashmir to cross the Line of Control en masse to help their oppressed brethren.

The event which coincided with the 63rd anniversary of Indian invasion of Kashmir was addressed by several heads of UJC constituents, who admonished the international community to give up its 'silence' towards the Kashmiris' ongoing non-violent struggle or else they would be forced to take any extreme step.

While expressing their all out support to the ongoing popular and peaceful resistance movement, they paid rich tributes to the Kashmiris for braving worst ever repression of their history.

Mr Salahuddin, also the supreme commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, made it clear that militancy had not stopped in Kashmir but it had been restricted to the areas away from civilian populations.

“Militant actions will continue until the goal of freedom is achieved. There won't be any compromise on it,” he declared.

Mr Salahuddin maintained that freedom fighters had no enmity with any civilian belonging to any race or religion but only with the occupation forces.

“We are combating Indian troops and all civilians from any race, religion or class are respectable for us.”

The UJC chief also firmly ruled out division of the disputed Himalayan region, saying Jammu and Kashmir was an indivisible entity and its oneness would be jealously safeguarded.

“Let me declare that first of all Doda, Rajouri and Poonch will be liberated and then Kupwara, Baramulla and Badgam,” he said, referring to three each towns from Jammu and Valley, respectively.

Expressing gratitude to the Chinese government for its stand on Kashmir, he said: “We hope that Beijing will play a pivotal role in early resolution of Kashmir issue in accordance with the aspirations of the Kashmiris.”

The head of proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba in Kashmir, Maulana Abdul Wahid Kashmiri, who was also among the speakers, said fighter groups were weighing up international community's response towards the situation in Kashmir.

“We are waiting to see how India and the rest of the world respond to the calls of oppressed and unarmed Kashmiris. If Kashmiris are not given their right (to freedom), not a single Indian trooper would return home alive,” he said.

Mufti Asghar of Jaish-e-Mohammad also vowed to carry on the armed struggle while reaffirming support to oppressed Kashmiris.

Later, the militant leaders also led a rally which marched some 500 metres through a main artery before dispersing peacefully.

Separately, hundreds of activists of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), led by veteran leader Amanullah Khan, also staged a rally in Muzaffarabad which culminated in the border town of Chakothi.

Earlier, the JKLF had held a protest demonstration in Khuiratta (Kotli) on October 23 and a long-march from Hajira to Tetrinote (Poonch) on October 25 under its “restoration of national integration campaign.”

Back in Muzaffarabad, AJK Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan and some of his cabinet ministers spoke to a big gathering of government employees and ruling Muslim Conference workers whereas former premier Raja Farooq Haider and his colleagues addressed a big gathering of PML-N workers to mark the 'Black Day.'

Minister of state for Information Samsam Bukhari and PPAJK leaders and workers made a human chain in Chakothi while the PPAJK president Chaudhry Abdul Majeed led a rally of his party workers in Tetrinote to express solidarity with the Kashmiris.

Peoples Muslim League also took out a rally in Naya Muhalla, which was led by its media adviser Khawaja Atif Bashir.