The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference (G), Syed Ali Shah Geelani, has said that the extremist Hindu organizations, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Sangh Parivar, want to implement their communal agenda in Kashmir with force, and the puppet administration is obeying their every command.
Syed Ali Geelani, in a statement issued in Srinagar, said that the Muslims, the Pandits, the pro-freedom leadership and the civil society of the occupied territory in one voice were opposing the construction of separate colonies for the Pandits, but the Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, was rigid on creation of such colonies for the Pandits and showed no respect for the public voice.
He said that in order to appease the RSS, the chief minister wanted to slit the throats of the Kashmiri people, and she could go to any extent for the sake of power. The APHC (G) chairman, while opposing the setting up of colonies for retired Indian soldiers in the Kashmir Valley, revealed that most of the soldier quarters meant for the retired Indian forces personnel in Jammu had been secretly sold by them, and they were living in their native places.
The APHC (G) chairman termed the crackdown on the Hurriyet leaders as the worst kind of state terrorism. “Kashmir issue is not any law and order problem which can be solved by using bamboo sticks and by arresting people,” he said. “Kashmir is a human as well as a political issue as the Kashmiris have never accepted India’s forced occupation nor will they endorse it in future,” he said.
Syed Ali Geelani demanded an impartial probe by some independent agency into the recent killing of a youth from Bemina and a woman by Indian police in Kud area of Udhampur district in Jammu region.
He expressed solidarity with the families of the deceased. Geelani also appealed to the people to express solidarity with the Kashmiri prisoners on Friday (June 17) by organizing special prayers for their release.
