Calling for complete shutdown on Tuesday (April 12), Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik on Saturday said that they will stage a protest sit-in at Lal Chowk on 11th April in which a collective voice will be raised against harassment, assault on Kashmiri students outside the state.According to KNS correspondent, Malik while addressing a news conference here at Hameed blood bank Abi Guzar, Srinagar said that they don’t want to politicize educational institutes but the harassment of Kashmiri students is intolerable.JKLF chief said, “Kashmiris have never interfered in educational institutions and for hem education should never be politicized but the way ‘Indian political parties’ and National media have launched an assault on Kashmiris and are communalizing atmosphere in the name of NIT can only be termed as mental and moral bankruptcy of these people.”
Malik said that some national media channels including some journalists are unnecessarily focusing on NIT. “I won’t hesitate to say that those Journalists lack basic Journalism ethics as focusing on NIT and ignoring assault on Kashmir students outside the state is not any journalism ethic,” he said.
Malik said that Kashmiri students are being beaten, harassed and intimidated outside the state and no one is paying heed to their miseries. “Instead a drama is being staged at NIT Srinagar to hide these atrocities and divert attention from it,” he said.
He said, ‘Indian rulers, their Kashmiri stooges and forces have fallen so low in disgrace that they have started desecrating graves and graveyards. Kashmiris will not tolerate all these government sponsored anti-Kashmiri acts and will stage a one day protest shutdown on Tuesday 12th April against such acts.”
While condemning the assaults against Kashmiri students across India, Malik said, ‘No day passes when Kashmiri students are not being beaten, harassed, intimidated and bullied in India and this phenomenon has taken a very ugly colour now. Students who are busy in their studies and are trying to make their futures are being made scapegoat for pity political interests.”Giving details of Kashmiri students being harassed throughout India, Malik said that from Delhi to Meewar and Jodhpur to Noida this intimidation of Kashmir students is on rise and hooligans backed by the Indian state are busy playing with the careers of these Kashmiri students.
“As this state sponsored terrorism is on, prolonged NIT Srinagar Drama is being played to hoodwink public opinion and hide these oppressive attacks on Kashmiri students and divert attention from it,” Malik said.He said that Kashmiri students are being beaten, jailed, tortured, humiliated and harassed outside states but Indian media pretends to know nothing about it, instead this biased media is 24/7 reporting false propaganda on NIT Srinagar and this is done to hide atrocities and oppression unleashed against Kashmiri students in Indian states.Yasin Malik said that on one side Kashmiris are being oppressed and on the other side some people are coming to invade Kashmir with their flags. He said that Kashmiris have seen these gimmicks of flag hoisting in past too.
He said that Kashmiris have and will always stand for communal harmony and we have showed this Muslim Kashmiri character even during 2008 when Hindu chauvinists blockaded us but we despite provocation provided food and shelter to Amar Nath Yatrees and recent floods when we fed and rescued Indian tourists and Hindu brethren living here.Malik said that such is the limit of moral bankruptcy of Indian rulers, their Kashmiri stooges and forces that Indian forces have started desecrating graves and graveyards now.“Kareemabad Pulwama martyrs graveyard desecration is a glaring example of this insane attitude,” said Yasin.He said that small kids and youth are being slapped with PSA and who ever completes his PSA period is being slapped with another PSA immediately. “Only day before during a nocturnal raid Indian forces tortured a 60 year old man and killed him in Shah Abad Dooru,” Chairman JKLF said, adding that these oppressive measures, reign of terror against Kashmiris in Jammu Kashmir and harassment of Kashmiri students studying in Indian states is not acceptable. (KNS)