Kashmiri activists on Monday staged an anti-India rally in Muzzafarabad to protest the arrival of India’s special interlocutor arrival in Srinagar on a five-day visit “to hold talks with all the stakeholders”.
The rally, organised by Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu Kashmir (PHJK) began from Burhan Wani Chowk and ended near Garhipan in the capital city of Kashmir.
The protesters maintained that the appointment of the interlocutor was a ploy to weaken the Kashmir liberation movement.
“Down with India’s double-dealing and deceit”, the protesters chanted, as they held their protest on the main road, while a banner read: “India should acknowledge Kashmir as a disputed territory and hold tripartite talks”.
“The move is aimed at overshadowing the sacrifices of the Kashmiri people so they can achieve their internationally acknowledged right to self-determination,” said PHJK chief Uzair Ahmed Ghazali. He further said that occupier state has stepped up repression and its National Investigating Agency was constantly intimidating Kashmiri leaders and their families.
In addition to this, they have appointed a former spy “to normalise the situation” in the occupied territory, he added.
“In fact, this hollow and delusive move is directed at hoodwinking the international community at a time when efforts to expose Indian brutalities and duplicities across the world have picked up,” the PHJK chief maintained.
Pakistan People’s Party leader Shaukat Javed Mir said no one was disinclined to hold dialogue, provided that the process was meant to be result-oriented and included all three parties to the dispute.
Last month, India appointed Dineshwar Sharma, a former Intelligence Bureau director, as the special representative for Jammu and Kashmir, to hold “sustained dialogue with all stakeholders”.
Talking to the media prior to his departure for Srinagar, Sharma had said no one should jump to conclusions before the process of talks began.
“I do not have a magic wand but my efforts should be judged with sincerity and not through the prism of the past,” a Noida-based Indian news entity (WION) quoted him as saying on Sunday.
“I am going there without any preconceived notions. Everyone is welcome to meet me,” he added.
However, the joint resistance leadership, comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, dismissed any possibility of a dialogue with him and described the offer as “a futile exercise”.
INDIA HAS APPOINTED A CAPABLE AND HIGHLY EXPERIENCED PERSON AS THE INTERLOCUTOR FOR KASHMIR. DO THE TROUBLE CREATORS IN THE VALLEY EXPECT GOVT OF INDIA TO APPOINT ONE FROM AMONG THEM ? THEY SHOULD COOPERATE WITH HIM AND CONVEY THEIR CONCERNS ONLY THEN SOME MOVEMENT FORWARD CAN TAKE PLACE FROM THE PRESENT LOGJAM
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