‘Kashmir’s disputed status will not change by change of guard’
Srinagar: Terming the sacrifices rendered by the people of Kashmir for the right of self-determination as the greatest asset, Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir in its statement has said that it is due to these sacrifices that Kashmir issue gained a new direction and woke the nation from its slumber. The amalgam said that they would continue to offer the sacrifices until the Kashmir issue is not resolved as per its historical background and according to the mission of martyrs.
According to a statement issued to KNS, paying glowing tributes to Shaheed-e-Millat Mirwaiz Molvi Farooq, Shaheed-e-Hurriyat Khwaja Abdul Gani Lone, Hawal martyrs and other martyrs, the Hurriyat spokesperson said these martyrs sacrificed their lives for the freedom movement against Indian forcible occupation not for any material gains. “Our freedom movement has reached such level where we are obliged to safeguard the sacrifices rendered by our martyrs,” the spokesperson said and condemned the arrest spree by police and forces across the valley.
The spokesperson while commenting on the change of regime in India said: “It does not matter to us whether there would be a secular or Hindu nationalist regime in India as the disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir remains the same. Those who desire for the solution to this humanitarian issue are the well wishers of this nation.”
He said if Indian political leadership shuns its prejudicial approach with regards to Kashmir issue, all the fear and concern that has gripped the people across the whole south Asia due to uncertainty and vice versa, will fade out.
“Due to stubbornness of India and its ‘time consuming’ policy with regards to Kashmir issue, neither the relation between Islamabad and New Delhi has improved nor has it helped resolve the Kashmir issue in any way,” he said, adding that it is only and only die to the stubbornness of India that Kashmir issue continues to remain unresolved. He said though the regime has changed in India and people have voted there for ideological change, the oppressed people of Kashmir have no hopes of any relief from such change. “If the people of Kashmir will be allowed to express their political and other rights, they will not waste a moment in declaring the current change of India as a positive step. Not a single regime has obliterated the spirit freedom movement from the hearts of Kashmiris nor could they change the historical reality of this issue. The need of the hour is to express the political maturity and take initiatives to resolve the long pending issue of Kashmir so that peace can prevail in the whole subcontinent,” the spokesperson added. (KNS)