Mirwaiz calls for steps to resolve Kashmir dispute

Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday said that there was no alternative to efforts that have to be made to resolve the Kashmir dispute which is bleeding Kashmiris each day, “as we  witness death, suffering and violence everywhere around us.”

Addressing the Friday congregation at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, he condemned the killing of two civilians in firing by government forces.

“How long will GOI refuse to accept that people of Kashmir are not paid agents of some so-called instigators who are protesting at their behest, but are a nation of people who consciously and with conviction are engaged and offering huge sacrifices in decades-long struggle to achieve their basic political right of self-determination regarding their destiny, as is the right of every nation,” said Mirwaiz.

Mirwaiz said it is strange that while India considered its struggle against the British Rule as a freedom struggle and its leaders Gandhi, Bose, Nehru, Bhagat Singh as leaders and freedom fighters, it considers “our Freedom struggle as terrorism and our activists and freedom fighters as terrorists and subversives!And projects and promotes it as such in India and globally.”

Mirwaiz said the current young generation of Kashmiris raised in the repressive and stifling environment of forcible control, are determined and making this demand in absolutely clear terms in every possible way and through all mediums available to them ,despite being mercilessly killed, blinded, maimed, curbed, banned, gagged and despite facing all forms of repression by the state.

“The situation is so grim that the youth brave naked bullets of the Indian forces to save the lives of militants who are their heroes. young students including girls are hitting the streets but refusing to yield,” said the Mirwaiz.

Mirwaiz said the resulting as a consequence of unprecedented oppression and delay in resolution of the dispute is further increasing, leading  to killing of those as well who represent state institutions.

Mirwaiz said loss of every life is painful and unnecessary if only ground realities are accepted and a process of conflict resolution initiated without delay.