Joint resistance leadership calls for statewide protest on Friday; Says PDP working on anti-Kashmir, anti-Muslim agenda
Stating that attempts to change demography of Jammu and Kashmir will be resisted tooth and nail, the joint resistance leadership on Wednesday hit out at ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) accusing it of resuming work on “its anti-Kashmir and anti-Muslim agenda.”
“Issuing domicile certificates to West Pakistan Refugees, court verdict challenging the sovereignty of Jammu Kashmir and allowing outside banks to confiscate and hold properties in Jammu & Kashmir are the issues of life and death for Kashmiris. PDP has again started working on its anti-Kashmir and anti-Muslim agenda but people of Jammu & Kashmir will not hesitate to offer any sacrifice to oppose such actions tooth and nail,” the joint resistance leadership – Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik – said in a statement appealing people for statewide protests on Friday.
“These are maneuvers to change the demography of Jammu and Kashmir. PDP has started showing its true colors by initiating the process of creeping slowly and deceitfully towards the Hindutva agenda of its coalition partner. We are not against the rehabilitation of these refugees and on humanitarian grounds we fully support their every demand and urge the government to facilitate them and provide them all the rights they are eligible to. India is a huge country with more than 30 states and if they are sincere, honest and feel the sufferings of these refugees they can settle them in any of their states, but settling them in a disputed land of Jammu and Kashmir will jeopardize and erode its historical and political contours, which is not acceptable to us at any cost,” they said.
“Yes-men of these imperialistic forces are mesmerized in their luxuries and have lost their wits as they are intoxicated under the influence of power and perks—but let us remind and caution these stooges not to put the valley to the flames of destruction and bloodshed, just to appease their coalition partners. By doing so they may be in good books of their masters but they can never stop themselves being consumed in these flames,” they said.
“We question these collaborators that how much blood they need to offer for remaining in power, how much pain and agony of the people will suffice there greedy mindset. History stands witness to the fact that traitors and tyrants had a very tragic and disgusting end and our present day stooges are no exemption,” they said.
“We appeal the nation in general and visionary people in particular to nip these evils in the bud and if they are left unattended they grow to the monsters of cruelty and barbarism. Disputed nature of Jammu and Kashmir cannot be brushed aside by any judicial gimmicks. We appeal all the sects of the society including Ulamma, Imams, religious scholars, intellectuals, civil society, youth, traders and transporters to remain vigilant against these killing and crushing tactics of India.”
The joint leadership appealed to hold peaceful protests on Friday, 23 December, “to convey a clear message to India, its stooges and the whole world that we as a nation will fight such designs unanimously, willfully and honestly.”
The incarcerated chairman of Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) Shabir Ahmad Shah termed the government move to issue domicile certificates to West Pakistan Refugees (WPR) as a “well-planned conspiracy against the Muslim majority status of Jammu Kashmir.”
“By playing a major role in this regard, the PDP’s anti-Kashmir stance stands exposed,” a spokesman of the DFP, in a statement today, quoted Shabir Shah as saying.
“The issuing of domicile certificates to West Pakistan Refugees (WPR) is unacceptable. The people of the State will resist such move tooth and nail. This is a well-planned conspiracy of Saffron brigade and PDP. The Mehbooba Mufti-led government is so obsessed with power that it doesn’t consider even its consequences,” Shabir Shah said.
Dukhtaran-e-Millat said that granting domicile certificates to West Pakistan Refugees is a “deliberate attempt to change the Muslim character of disputed Jammu & Kashmir.”
A spokesperson of DeM said that “such decisions neither are nor will ever be acceptable to the people of Kashmir and that such evil designs would be fought tooth and nail.”
“This is the recognition of the apprehensions that were already raised by a number of scholars. Incarcerated chairperson of Muslim DeeniMahaz, Dr Muhammad Qasim also has mentioned about the same in his book Baang,” the spokesperson said.
“This is the start of a well thought out process that would be stopped only after making the WPRs the permanent residents of Jammu & Kashmir. These refugees should be settled in any part of India, not in Jammu & Kashmir.”
“In Jammu, under a well-planned strategy, more than six lakh Muslims were massacred and their properties were usurped by these refugees. We don’t consider the WPRs as permanent citizens of Jammu Kashmir, they should return their properties to their Muslim owners,” the statement said.
Hurriyat leader and Salvation Movement chairman, Zafar Akbar Bhat, also denounced the state’s move to issue domicile certificates to refugees from West Pakistan.
Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir (HCJK) leaders Shabir Ahmad Dar, Muhammad Iqbal Mir, Muhammad AshaanUntoo, Imtiyaz Ahmad Reshi and GulamNabi War termed the process of issuing domicile certificates to West Pakistan Refugees (WPRs) as a serious issue.
“This is aimed at changing the Muslim majority character of the state and diluting the Kashmir issue. This decision by the saffron forces is aimed at prolonging the Indian control in Jammu Kashmir. Those forces who are planning to facilitate the stay of Hindu migrants have some days back burned down the area where Rohangya Muslims from Burma are residing causing the death of four innocents,” they said.
Tehreek-e-Mazahmat (TeM) chairman Bilal Sidiqee termed the issuance of domicile certificates to West Pakistan Refugees (WPRs) “as a ploy to alter the Muslim identity of Jammu and Kashmir.”
Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (R) Chairman Farooq Ahmad Dar alias BitaKarete in a statement said issuance of state subject certificate is “direct violation of special status of Jammu and Kashmir.”
“We take a pledge to oppose such move. We appeal people to resist the sinister move and give befitting reply to those who are hatching conspiracies to alter demographic status of state,” he said.
