Srinagar, Publish Date: Mar 11 2018
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik on Sunday termed the statement of Minister for Finance Haseeb Drabu as an “ample specimen of a sold-out mentality and classic example of a person trying to act like a lawyer in politics who has no ideology, faith and ethics but is always ready to present his clients’ wishes and whims.”
“Issuing ridiculous and absurd statements in a pursuit to distort historical facts can only be termed as naivety and ignorance,” a statement issued here by JKLF spokesperson said.
Quoting Yasin Malik, the spokesperson said Drabu “like collaborators wants to prove their loyalty to their masters in Delhi and Nagpur by issuing statements likes these but these people should know that facts don’t change by mincing words and coining new terms.”
The JKLF chief said that in 1996, Drabu came to (APHC) Kashmir awareness bureau (KAB) office at Delhi with his “friend”.
“Drabu talked to me for hours and while praising our efforts for liberation of Jammu Kashmir from illegal occupation of India delivered several ideas and concepts for it. He in front of KAB office bears including the then KAB bureau chief Ghulam Muhammad Butt who is lodged at Tihar jail Delhi from last many years, said on oath that that whenever he is in Bombay he always visits the ancestral house of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and bows his head in respect for his wisdom about Hindu chauvinist mind-set which in his words is always anti-Muslim,” he said.
JKLF chairman that after few years Drabu “got what he intended to and was awarded with the chairmanship of JK bank. Betraying his nation, he renounced resistance movement for his petty selfish gain and switched over to other side of the divide and joined Indian political system.”
Malik said that not only this, making a complete U-turn about Hindu-mindset he used to denounce, this person “joined hands with RSS and is serving as main link between PDP and Nagpur now and delivering ridiculous statements trying to hoodwink international opinion on Jammu Kashmir.”
“It is this hypocritical attitude Haseeb Drabu like educated people who advocated freedom through their ideas especially write-ups and articles that are even now available on internet, which invoked thousands of young and old to join freedom struggle and sacrifice their lives for it.
He said that time has come to expose these “charlatans who for their petty interests are harming the national interests of the people of Jammu Kashmir.”
