Paying rich tributes to the martyred Mohammad Maqbool Bhat and martyred Mohammad Afzal Gooru, Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Geelani condemned in strong words the house arrest of Muhammad Ashruf Sehrai, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Ayaz Akbar and Nayeem Ahmad Khan and the detention of hundreds of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat activists in different police stations including Mohammad Yousuf Falahi, Shakeel Ahmad Yatoo, Ghulam Mohammad Tantray, Nazir Ahmad matoo and Bilal Ahmad Rouhama. While commenting over the apology of the five congress MLAs in the matter of Mohammad Afzal Gooru.
In a statement issued to KNS he said that National Conference, PDP and state congress are equally responsible for the hanging of Afzal Gooru and their forgiveness for this crime is a proof of their wicked politics. In a Sunday’s press statement, Geelani sahib said that the way and the conditions in which the Afzal gooru was hanged in Tihar jail two years ago was a political murder and that act was a murder of the justice. Not allowing him to meet his family members before his hanging and denying his mortal remains to his family was a big question for the Indian judiciary and these acts badly exposed the democratic claims of this country. The pro-freedom leader said that after hanging Afzal Gooru, the pro-Indian politicians of Kashmir held a drama in the state assembly with regarding to the issue.
He said that may it be Omer Abdullah, Mufti Sayeed or any other leader of the state congress, they all have a single point demand and goal that is the chair of power and for this they can go to any extend and if they have to themselves hang any Afzal gooru, they will do that. While strongly condemning the restrictions over the holding of special prayer meetings on the completion of the two years of the martyrdom of Mohammad Afzal Gooru, house arrest of Muhammad Ashruf Sehrai, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Ayaz Akbar and Nayeem Ahmad Khan and the detention of hundreds of pro-freedom leaders and Tehreek-e-Hurriyat activists in different police stations, Geelani sahib said that if India is killing our loved ones and the state government is not allowing us to mourn their deaths. These pro-Indian people never do anything themselves but they have to take permission from the New Delhi.
While reiterating his demand for the return of the mortal remains of both Shaheed Mohammad Maqbool Bhat and Shaheed Mohammad Afzal Gooru, the pro-freedom leader said that until the dead bodies of both the martyrs is not returned to their families, the Kashmiri nation will continue to wait for them and will never give up their demand. Geelani sahib once again called for complete and state wide shutdown on 9 and 11 February and appealed Imams of the Masjids to held special prayers after every Nimaz. (KNS)