SRINAGAR: Hurriyat leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Gilani and Muhammad Yasin Malik have said that India is not serious and sincere to resolve the Kashmir issue.
Speaking at a seminar at Gilani’s Hyderpora residence here, they said that the steps taken by the government of India were not sincere as arrests, killings and oppression continued in the territory at the same time when an offer of talks was being made. They also made reference to recent incidents in the Tihar and Kathua jails and lambasted the treatment meted out to the Kashmiri prisoners there.
In his address, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that the current situation in occupied Kashmir is very difficult. “Suppress the Kashmiris from all sides, be it South, North Kashmir or in jails. A scary situation has been created and Kashmiris are being suppressed from all sides,” he said.
“The recent incidents in Tihar and Kathua jails are pathetic. There is a pattern in it,” he said and added that Indian laws clearly state that prisoners should be lodged near their homes. “They have been deliberately lodged away from their homes to show Kashmiris that how much can Kashmiris be oppressed,” he said.
In his speech, Yasin Malik highlighted brutalities of Indian troops in the occupied territory particularly in South and North Kashmir. “Look at the current situation in South and North Kashmir, especially in the villages of South Kashmir,” he said. “Kulgam, Tral, Islamabad, Pulwama and every village in the name of the crackdown, our mothers and sisters are being taken out of their homes in the mornings and then oppression is done to them,” he said.
Yasin Malik said that India used its National Investigation Agency (NIA) to make the Kashmiris surrender. “There is no other reason behind it. See the situation in the jails as to what is happening there,” he added.
“Fascists are ruling from Delhi. Operation All-Out has only one aim, to thrash Kashmiris to make them surrender,” he said. “We have got together to get thrashed and our Islamic scriptures teach us to raise voice against this thrashing,” he said, insisting on unity among Kashmiris.
