ISLAMABAD: The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, and Hurriyet leaders, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik in occupied Kashmir, have urged the United Nations to come forward in a big way and take solid steps towards resolving the Kashmir dispute.
The leaders in a joint statement issued in Srinagar welcomed the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon’s recent remarks on Kashmir and said that the World Body should play its role to stop the loss of human lives in the occupied territory, Kashmir media service reported.
The top Hurriyet leaders termed the Narendra Modi headed meeting on Kashmir situation in New Delhi as traditional and meaningless.
“Kashmir is neither an issue of law and order nor an economic problem. It is an old political and human problem that needs to be addressed according to the aspirations of Kashmiri people and ground realities in Kashmir,” they said.
The resistance leaders pointed out that India had been demonstrating its rigidity on Kashmir for the past 69 years but it could neither change the reality of Kashmir dispute, nor could it change the minds of the Kashmiri people.
They strongly condemned the continued detention and house- arrest of pro-freedom leaders and ban on the march announced by the Hurriyet leadership towards the martyrs’ graveyard at Naqshband Sahab in Srinagar on the occasion of Kashmir Martyrs’ Day on Wednesday (July 13).
They asked the imams and religious preachers to repeat the demand for right to self-determination in mosques after Friday prayers.
They said that Narendra Modi’s decision to send Indian Imams to Kashmir was a useless action. “The imams and molvis are on payrolls of Indian government and are being used as stooges. There are no takers in Kashmir for such people,” they said.
The leaders also termed Mehbooba Mufti’s statements on the current situation as childish and foolish. “What is happening in Kashmir is not happening for the first time.
The oppression continues since India has occupied Kashmir and we are witnessing revolt against that occupation now,” they said, advising Mehbooba “not to talk beyond her size and make a joke of herself.”
