All Parties Hurriyat Conference ailing chief made these comments while reacting to the events which unfolded following deadliest militant attack on army on September 18, 2016 in North Kashmir’s Uri near Line of Control (LoC).
“We as human beings feel pain and with sincere heart believe to promote universal brotherhood,” Geelani said in a statement issued by APHC-g early this evening.
“We never derive pleasure from human sufferings, and the forces personnel that lost their lives were humans,” the octogenarian leader said in reaction to the killing of seventeen army men in Uri militant attack.
“It is irony that Indian politicians without applying their reason jumped to conclusion and an ambiance and euphoric of war like situation was created and people were instigated and infused with illogical theories against neighbouring country Pakistan,” he said.
Slamming Indian media for its biased reporting and irrational reviews, Geelani said that they added fuel to already volatile situation.
Taking dig at “local stooges”, Geelani said, “they in a bid to gain favours of their masters scolded and blamed Pakistan without assigning any logic.”
He said that the reaction is natural but “we need to maintain sense and balance while giving vent to our emotions”.
Expressing his dismay, he said, “it is highly deplorable that all these leaders are following their sentiments and there is a need to come out from this cocoon thinking and they should to shun their dubious and double standards.”
He asked all these politicians, their yeomen and Indian media that “why they see all these episodes with the prism they like and why do not they follow the sensible and realistic approach before coming to conclusion”.
The ailing leader further said, “we feel that there is no difference between humans and the blood is sacred whose so ever it is, but the question arises why a deal of double dealing is followed.”
Geelani asked all those making “hue and cry” over Uri episode that “they should come with answer that why they feel the blood of youth in Kashmir is so cheap and why don’t they feel the pain and agonies the people in Kashmir face”.
Addressing Indian politicians, he said that since last 70 years more than 6 lakh people were “brutally massacred” and while referring to ongoing uprising, Geelani said, “more than 90 youths fell to bullets and pellets, thousands were maimed, properties worth millions ransacked and hundreds lost their vision.”
“You didn’t feel the pain and instead accused people and youth for the crime they never committed,” he said addressing the Indian politicians.
Lamenting over the double standards, Geelani said that both people who lost their lives in recent uprising and in Uri episode belong to human fraternity but it is highly deplorable that that people in power corridors and media opted only to admonish neighbouring country and their tears were specified only for those killed in Uri.
Geelani said that people want to know that “what is the philosophy that you are mourning the Uri episode but deriving pleasure from massacre in Kashmir”.
“Is this all that you call patriotic passion that those killed in Kashmir were enemies or aggressors or is it was obligatory to save so-called fabric of country,” he asked the pro-Indian politicians. “Barring a few, Indian politicians mislead their countrymen and portrayed all killings in Kashmir as to save the oneness of country and so-called conscience of people of state.”
He said that 35 members of Sikh community were massacred when Bill Clinton visited India and it was done “deliberately to hoodwink America and international community”.
“Similarly,” Geelani said, “the Uri episode is used in same nature to demoralize people and create suspicions about people’s movement.” “Keeping in view the present session in UNO they make a war like situation to divert the attention of the world committee from the grave human rights atrocities committed by the Indian forces in Kashmir.”
He expressed his dismay over the criminal silence maintained by international community and said, “they for their material gains are reluctant to come to our rescue. They don’t feel their duty to respect human values. Their all interests are centralized towards business interests only.”
