Come to Kashmir and enjoy our hospitality: Geelani, Mirwaiz, Malik appeal tourists, yatris
The joint resistance leadership comprising of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Muhammad Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik today invited tourists and yatris to visit Kashmir.
Welcoming everyone intending to visit Kashmir, the leaders in a joint statement said, “Everyone from the world including India is most welcome to Kashmir. We invite them to come to Kashmir and enjoy our hospitality and the beauty of paradise on earth.”
“From centuries Kashmiris have been safeguarding and providing exemplary hospitality and safety to tourists and yatris from world including India as we have been taught hospitality, humanity and safeguarding the rights of guests by our great religion,” they said.
“Islam and the Prophet of Islam (SAW) have taught us to be kind with our guests and serve them and safeguard their rights at every cost. This is also embedded in our Kashmiri culture and ethics and that is why our hospitality has been exemplary throughout the history.”
“Millions of tourists from the world including India have been visiting Kashmir from centuries and enjoying the mesmerizing beauty of this paradise on earth and also the unparalleled hospitality of our people. Our history bears witness that we as a nation have always stood firm with these ethics and teachings and we have always respected, safeguarded and served our guests during hardest of times and worst calamites,” the leaders said.
“In 2008 when chauvinist forces in Jammu blockaded us and even life saving drugs and baby-food was stopped from coming to us, we as a nation replied this tyranny with our exemplary hospitality to yatris and tourists who were in Kashmir that time. We not only safeguarded them and provided them shelter but also served them and kept the doors of our homes and localities open on them. The same was done during devastating floods of 2014 when we as a nation were shattered but looked after our guests with passion and zeal.”
