Unresolved Kashmir ‘severe threat for global peace’: Geelani
Says every corner of India is ‘No Go’ area for Kashmiris
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani Friday termed Kashmir as ‘a basic issue of contention between the two nuclear powers of the subcontinent’.
In a statement issued here, Geelani said “unrealistic attitude” of Indian leadership regarding this globally accepted political dispute and dealing with it militarily has created death and destruction in the whole state.
He said if this problem is not solved, not only Indo-Pak subcontinent but the global peace and stability, is under severe threat which may culminate in the world’s biggest human catastrophe.
Geelani said that Jammu and Kashmir is not merely a territorial dispute between the two neighbouring countries, but an issue of survival of more than 1.5 million people.
“It has always threatened the peace of the whole sub-continent creating a situation of uncertainty and political turbulence leading to a war like situation whenever there is any incident on either side,” he said adding that “unless this bone of contention is addressed according to the wishes and aspirations of its natives, permanent peace and stability will remain a distant dream.”
Commenting on the prevailing situation, Hurriyat (G) chairman said every corner of India is a ‘No Go’ area for Kashmiris, where a “witch-hunt” of Kashmiris is on peak and they are tortured, humiliated, ruthlessly beaten with seditious cases being registered against them.
“The fascist forces through their uncontrolled goons get sadistic pleasure by repeatedly threatening our existence. Time and again such events prove, beyond doubt that forceful and unholy togetherness can never cement any bonds between them. Such bonding is so fragile that even a slight breeze disrupts and disbands it,” he said.
The pro-freedom leader said that conscious, sincere, well-read and visionary Indians are well aware of the fact that despite using iron hand, military might, local regimes and vast intelligence network for the last seven decades miserably and desperately failed to crush the freedom sentiment of Kashmiris and they utterly failed to “Indianise Kashmiris”. In future also, they will not be able to contain and control our urge for freedom, he added.
Geelani appealed the global community including the conscious and patriotic Indians to come forward and raise their voice to safeguard Kashmiris and help India “not to get fragmented the same way as the fate of USSR in the recent past”.
He further warned if good sense will not prevail upon them then the biggest catastrophe of humanity is on cards and it hardly matters which country mourns more deaths.
Meanwhile, paying tributes to youth killed in Sopore encounter, Syed Ali Geelani said, “These brave youth are sacrificing their today for the freedom of our land. We salute our martyrs. It is stubborn attitude of India that precious lives are being snatched from already subjugated and suppressed people of occupied state.”
While blaming “stubborn attitude” of Indian leadership for the continuous bloodshed, Geelani said their denial and unconcern is the sole reason for this unabated bloodshed in Jammu and Kashmir.
He reiterated his stand that the UN resolutions guarantee the peaceful and amicable solution of this longstanding dispute in accordance with the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
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