Srinagar: Paying rich tributes to the two local youth, who were martyred in Kakpora Pulwama, chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani expressed sorrow that he couldn’t fulfill the last wish of the martyred youth Bilal Ahmad Bhat, in which he had said that “my funeral prayers will be lead by the Geelani”.
According to a statement issued to KNS, in a telephonic speech to the funeral procession, Geelani said that due to the rigid and stubborn approach of India, the loss of the precious human lives are going on a very large scale in Jammu & Kashmir, which have created political uncertainty and instability here and due to which the people are feeling uneasiness and unsafe.
The representatives of the Hurriyat conference Abdul Ahad Parra, Gh Mohi-ud-Din Andrabi, Farooz Ahmed Khan and Abdul Rasheed Dar participated into the funeral prayers of the martyres and expressed sympathy and condolence with the affected families. While Appreciating the complete election boycott of the people of Pulwama, Hurriyat chairman also appealed for the complete boycott of the upcoming assembly election drama and said that our youth are sacrificing their teenage for this sacred movement and these sacrifices demand that we should protect them and we should not do any such activity which will harm or weaken our struggle for the right to self determination.
He said that India is exploiting the election drama which is held in Jammu & Kashmir in the international forums and is projecting it as referendum in its favour. Casting votes in this situation will prove very detrimental for our struggle and it will lengthen the freedom movement.
The youth Bilal Ahmed Bhat who was martyred in Kakpora, had expressed his last wish that Geelani should lead his funeral prayers but the pro-freedom leader expressed his sorrow, that due to his house detention he couldn’t fulfill the last wish of this brave and bold son of the soil.
He said that the government has placed me under arrest from last four years and after returning from Delhi on 16th April I have been detained in my house and sometimes the visitors are also stopped to meet me. While committing upon the change of the government in the New Delhi, Geelani said that Kashmiris should not be afraid of the BJP government because whatever this party says or announces, the congress also does same things but they only speak in different tone.
He expressed his sorrow that every ruler of India is adopting the rigid approach instead of realistic approach with regarding to the Kashmir and without any justification and argument they want to continue the illegal occupation of Jammu & Kashmir with its military might. Not only Kashmiri nation is suffering but due to this policy, the millions of the people of this sub continent are suffering in one way or other. He said that the Kashmir issue has become a big hurdle in the peace, stability, development and prosperity of the both the countries.
While expressing deep concern over the rise in crime, Geelani said that an irreligious culture is being thrusted upon us through the state power and a destructive path has been shown to our younger generation. “It is very sad that the Islamic scholars and preachers who could have played a very vital role in the moral education of the nation, they are busy in solving the sect and group disputes and each group of them is serving the interests of its group instead of the interests of Islam. It has created the anarchy into the whole Muslim Ummah. Geelani said that the people who are dividing people in the name of Davebandi, Bralvi, Muqalid, Garmuqalid, Salfi and Hanfi, they are intentionally or unintentionally helping our collective enemy.”