Srinagar: Disallowing Friday prayers from last four months at Jamia Masjid, blanket ban on all peaceful political activities, arresting thousands of youth, resistance activists and students continuing wave of destruction and loot by Indian forces and police throughout Kashmir valley , nocturnal raids, beating and humiliating common people and recent attack on inmates in Baramullah Jail are ugly stains on so-called Indian democracy and glaring example of duplicitous politics of pro-India politicians and parties in Jammu Kashmir. This was stated by the chairman Jammu Kashmir liberation front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik in a press statement issued today. Terming the complete ban on Friday prayers at historical Jamia masjid Srinagar from last four months as a direct interference in religious affairs of Kashmiri Muslims amounting to persecution of Muslims, Yasin Malik said that shameless politicians especially from the ruling regime are on daily basis delivering sermons of democracy, ethics, education and peace on TV shows and press briefings but show no guts to compete with their political rivals politically. He said that from last four months a complete ban has been imposed on Friday prayers in Jamia masjid Srinagar and many other big Masajid. No one is being allowed to raise Allah’s name at these religious places from last many months now which amounts to religious persecution, asserted Yasin Malik. He said that the level of frustration so-called rulers are sufferings from can be gauged from the fact that they using their forces, police, and army are brazenly continuing destruction and loot in Kashmir valley and spree of arrests, use of black law PSA on small kids, pellet terrorism and now attacks on inmates in jails is also going on unabated. He said that among about ten thousand people arrested by police and forces during last three months, thousands are students but the height of hard-heartedness of these so-called rulers and even some of their civil authorities who want to prove themselves more loyal than the king is such that they brazenly denying of any student being in jail or captivity of police. Yasin Malik said that these puppets acting according to the orders of their masters in Delhi and Nagpur who are now continuously interfering in state affairs like exams of students etc. should find some guts to accept realities and should refrain from interfering in religious affairs of Kashmiri Muslims. While strongly condemning the attack on Baramullah Jail inmates in which many prisoners including Fiasal Aslam of Maisuma Srinagar who is in incarceration under PSA from last many months, JKLF chairman said that from last many days this jail is under cordon and many injured inmates including Faisal Aslam are even not being provided with any medical relief threatening even their lives. He said that the callousness of ruling regime, their police and authorities is really surprising and these inhuman anti Kashmiri acts are actually ugly stain on Indian democracy and glaring example of duplicitous politics of pro-India politicians and parties in Jammu Kashmir. He said that shameless politicians especially from the ruling regime are on daily basis delivering sermons of democracy, ethics, education and peace in TV shows and press briefings but they have no guts or ethics to compete with their political rivals ethically and politically and have turned Kashmir into a police state. He said that these double faced politicians should know that they according to the law of retribution will have to answer for their criminal acts against people and they should also keep in mind that the tyranny, oppression and suppression are bound to loose and it is the oppressed who always have last triumph.
Ban on Friday prayers in Jamia Masjid Amounts to Religious Persecution of Kashmiri Muslims: Yasin Malik
