Srinagar:
Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani Saturday expressed concern over loss of lives in recent shelling on the line of control (LoC).
Geelani in his statement said, “Unless Kashmir dispute is resolved in accordance with the wishes and aspirations of people, the risk of collision between the two nuclear powers will remain, which will be devastating not only for the region but whole world.”
He said to mislead their own people and international community India is keeping LoC “hot and tense” so that gross human rights violations by forces are continued.
Geelani in his statement said as a result of shelling human lives are lost irrespective of their creed, color, and religion, commoners and as well as armed forces.
“Our struggle is indigenous and people of Jammu Kashmir are striving for their basic and fundamental right legalized by not only world body but India as well, Geelani said, adding, “India with its arrogance of power has subjected the whole population to unparalleled brutalities and created a graveyard silence.” Geelani stressed that Kashmir is not a border issue between the two neighboring countries “but a bloody line has been drawn to divide the families”.
Hurriyat (G) chairman said that Kashmir issue is the root cause of all problems between the two countries.
“Three full scale wars have been fought between India and Pakistan and if the Kashmir issue is not resolved as per the aspirations of the people, another devastating war in near future is inevitable,” Hurriyat chairman said, adding that world is changing fast and no just voice can be muzzled by any kind of brutality and force.
“However the political uncertainty and glomming clouds of collision still prevail in the sub-continent because of the arrogance and stubbornness of India, which looks to Kashmir only through the prism of the law and order and shies away from addressing it in its historical perspective and unless India concedes to the just and realistic demands of the people of Kashmir both India and Pakistan particularly Kashmiri will continue to bleed and peace will be a distant dream for everybody living here,” he said.
Geelani also condemned the killing of a middle-aged lady Biba Akhtar wife of Mohammad Yousuf Matoo of Nain Batpora Sangam by unidentified gunmen.
He further condemned the continuous and unabated arrest spree of Hurriyat activists particularly “Tehreek-e-Hurriyat activists, namely Mohammad Shafi Turay, Ajaz Ahmad Dar, Showkat Ahmad Wagay, Tufail Ahmad Khan, Bilal Ahmad Sofi, Showkat Gani and Sarjan Ahmad Turay”.