Asserting the need for a united leadership for both the sides of Line of Control (LOC), chairman Huriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Monday said a joint and new strategy is needed to unite both the sides of pided Kashmir.He also called for deliberations between the pro-freedom parties so that what he termed invasion of right wing parties in Kashmir could be given the befitting reply.Stating that polls in no way can alter the course of action for the resolution in Kashmir issue, Mirwaiz said 75 percent of polling was recorded in 1987 and merely after two years, people in lakhs across Kashmir were on streets - demanding their birth right. He also said that finding the ways for Kashmir resolution is the responsibility of Kashmir’s leadership and the uncertainty needs to end at an earliest.
According to the KNS correspondent, a seminar over the UN resolutions was held at Hurriyat (M) headquarters here wherein most of the leaders of the amalgam pitched that the ones who have exhausted in the struggle for freedom should stay at home and bid farewell to their respective positions they have in the Huriyat camp.Mirwaiz while speaking at the seminar said the delay in the resolution of Kashmir is not the failure of the people or the leadership of Kashmir “but the onus lies with the United Nations which despite passing the resolutions has so far failed to implement them on ground.”The Huriyat (M) chairman maintained that the UN resolutions provide legal basis to the Kashmir issue and same has provided a legal platform for the dissent of the masses of this Himalayan region.
Mirwaiz, who is also Kashmir’s chief cleric while stressing for the united platform of Kashmir’s fragmented leadership said a new strategy is the need of the hour so that the leadership of Gilgit, Baltistan and Muzafarabad is also taken into confidence before future action is taken. He maintained further that the consultations within the pro-freedom camp would be initiated in a very near future so that the invasion of the right wing parties in Kashmir could be thwarted with the unanimous efforts.
Stating that routine hartals and stone pelting are not needed to exhibit the Kashmir issue is alive, Mirwaiz said that people must not get disappointed at present as resolution of Kashmir issue has become inevitable for the lasting peace in South Asia.“I want to ask the Government of India that if you term the present polls as referendum to Kashmir issue, what was the presence of 10 lakh people in Eidgah in 2008 and what was the two percent of poll participation in the elections of 1996,” said Mirwaiz, adding that an atmosphere is trying to be created that the formation of the new government can resolve the Kashmir issue but such claims are the ‘deceitful tactics’.
Taking a dig at BJP, Mirwaiz alleged that the party was trying to crush the ongoing resistance movement in Kashmir militarily. “It is the one step forward and two step backward policy being adopted. BJP is opposing the AFSPA repeal and is hell bent to crush peoples’ aspirations forcefully but it should know that on international level, its case vis-à-vis Kashmir dispute is much weaker.”The Huriyat (M) chairman also took jibe at New Delhi based news channels, accusing them of trying to push both India and Pakistan on the brink of another war. He added that tales are binge tried to carve out of the US president Obama’s India visit and when the former US President Bill Clinton came to India, the incidents of Chittisinghpora and Pathribal were carried out.
Besides Mirwaz senior leaders including Professor Abdul Gani Bhat, Agha Syed Hassan Al Moosvi Al Safvi, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza, Syed Saleem Geelani, Javed Ahmad Mir, Engineer Hilal Ahmad War, Syed BAshir Andrabi, GH Mir, and Yasmeen Raja also spoke on the occasion.Senior Hurriyat (M) leaders including Musadiq Aadil, Advocate Abdul Majeed Banday, Khaleel Ahmad Khaleel, Abdul Manan Bukhari, GN Zaki, Mushatq Ahmad Sofi, GN Najar, GN War besides galaxy of people including writers, intellectuals, lawyers, civil society members and general public also participated in the seminar.