Have always demanded impartial probe into Wanhama like killings: Syed Ali Shah Geelani
Condemns arrests, restrictions on pro-freedom leaders
5 Dariya News
Srinagar 02-Jun-2016
Chairman Hurriyat (G) Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Mohammad Yasin Malik and Hurriyat Secretary General Shabir Ahmad Shah continue to remain under police detention while as the police yesterday evening once again detained the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat General Secretary Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, Hurriyat Deputy Secretary General Haji Ghulam Nabi Sumji, Hurriyat spokesman Ayaz Akbar, Chief Organizer Altaf Ahmad Shah and Raja Mehraj-ud-din in view of the joint protest program called by the pro-freedom leadership on 3 June, Friday. While strongly condemning the arrests and restrictions by the government, Chairman Hurriyat (G) Syed Ali Geelani appealed the people to make the Friday joint protest program of the leadership a success program and send a strong message to the PDP-BJP coalition government that Kashmiris will never allow them to succeed in implementation of the RSS agendas in Kashmir and they will face a stiff resistance from the Kashmiri people. While rejecting the clarification of the Mehbooba Mufti over her “Pigeon and Cat” remakes, Syed Ali Geelani said that only India and its agents are responsible for the bloodshed and massacres in Kashmir. 99 percent killings in this state has been done by the Indian armed forces and the police and they continue to kill innocent people on different names and tags and all other unfortunate incidents which happen here are due to the prevailing political uncertainty and instability in the state for which the Indian illegal and forced occupation is directly and solely responsible.
While giving examples of the bloodshed of 35 Sikhs at Chattisinghpora and murder of 5 innocent foreign tourists by the Al-faran group, Geelani sahab said that there are dozens of Indian secret agencies active in Jammu & Kashmir who are involved in secret killings of the innocent people. He said that the facts regarding the killing of Pandit brothers at Wandhama is still a mystery and we have always demanded impartial investigation into all such incidents. The pro-freedom leader said that the clarification statement of Mehbooba Mufti in Assembly was a nice piece of exchange of words but this way she can neither change the realities of the Kashmir dispute nor can she hide those dangerous policies of RSS which they want to implement in Kashmir. While reiterating his stand against the establishment of Sainik and Pandit colonies in Kashmir, Syed Ali Geelani said that the unfortunate migration of the Kashmiri Pandits in 90s was a well thought-out plan of the then governor and the secret agencies of India. He said that there are still hundreds of Pandit families living in Kashmir who did not leave the Valley and they have never been harmed in these 25 years turmoil. They live with their Muslim neighbors at their respective native places and at some places there is only a single Pandit family living in Muslim population.
He said that we will welcome our Pandit brothers back in the Valley with open arms and we assure them that they are more than safe here but settling them in separate clusters will definitely harm the ages old trust and brotherhood between the two communities. They will get isolated from the society and it will disturb their social fabric. Syed Ali Geelani rejected the theory of Mehbooba Mufti for setting up of Sainik colonies in the Valley that this decision was taken during Late Shaikh Mohammad Abdullah’s rule and rejected it outrightly. There is no justification in setting up of Sainik colonies in the Valley even if it is meant for the local retired forces personal only. The people serving the state in different departments will also demand their separate colonies which will be illogical and unacceptable to the state. (KNS)