We Will Stay United: Kashmir Leader

Srinagar, 30 Muharram 1438/31 October 2016 (MINA) – Likening Kashmir movement with Palestinian Intifada, Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Sunday said that unity among pro-freedom leadership forged after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen Commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani will continue and there are no differences on basic issue.

He was released on Saturday evening after spending 113 days in jail, said the ongoing uprising has once again attracted global attention towards Kashmir and New Delhi has been shaken by steadfastness and resolve of people.

But, he unfortunately some writers and columnists are trying to create confusion by writing that some constituent bodies of Hurriyat Conference (G) and Hurriyat Conference (M) are not supporting the joint program.

“My suggestion to these columnists is to introspect and stop working at the behest of their masters. I want to tell the people of Kashmir that our unity will remain intact. This unity will take the Kashmir movement forward,” he said. Greater Kashmir reported.

Asked why Hurriyat Conference(G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani and Hurriyat Conference(M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq met the recent delegation from New Delhi headed by Yashwant Sinha while he refused, Malik said, “Geelani and Mirwaiz met the delegation, I didn’t meet them. Then reports came in the media that unity was over. It’s time for all us to show some maturity. There can be difference on whom to meet and whom not. But that will not affect the unity.”

Malik said that Kashmir struggle was a romance for him and he won’t sell it.

“Kashmir’s every inch is soaked with the blood of martyrs and there is hardly any house which has not seen the atrocities,” he said.

In 1975, after Indira-Abdullah accord, New Delhi announced that it has won the war in Kashmir. But just after a few years, some youth picked up arms and attracted world attention towards Kashmir issue.

the youth who were on the fore-front during the summer agitations of 2008, 2009 and 2010 and after facing tremendous atrocities by the forces took up the arms.

“So far Kashmiri youth have snatched 100 weapons from forces personnel including policemen. Had there been easy availability of arms, at least 20,000 youth would join the armed resistance in Kashmir,” Malik added. (T/P001/R04)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)