‘People won’t give up on their just right of right to self determination’
Srinagar: Hurriyat (M) Friday expressed strong resentment over prohibiting people from offering Friday congregational prayers at the historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar for the 13th consecutive week by imposing curfew, restrictions and curbs on their movement and stopping the Hurriyat (M) Chairman, Mirwaiz Dr. Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq from performing his religious obligations with his continued incarceration.
Hurriyat (M) said massive protest demonstrations were staged across Kashmir against the government for disallowing Friday congregational prayers at Jamia Masjid Srinagar and other major Masjids for the past 13 weeks and continued house detention and arrest of the Hurriyat (M) Chairman for the past three months.
Meanwhile, a Hurriyat member and senior leader of Jammu Kashmir Awami Action Committee, Muhammad Shafi Khan while addressing a large Friday gathering at a Masjid in Nawab Bazaar said the killings and injuries, oppression and suppression, human rights violations and interference in religious rights of the people and prohibiting Friday congregational prayers at Jamia Masjid Srinagar and other major Masjids and continued incarceration of Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir were unacceptable and condemnable.
Expressing shock and resentment over the fact that whichever so-called government assumes power in Jammu Kashmir, it first targets Kashmir’s historic and religious centre of Jamia Masjid, Srinagar, the Hurriyat (M) said this was done to weaken its religious, social and political importance.
The conglomerate said by doing so, the government would neither be able to force the people or the Hurriyat (M) Chairman to give up on their just right of right to self determination nor reduce the historic, religious, social and political importance of the pulpit of Jamia Masjid Srinagar wherefrom Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir highlights the voices of the voiceless people of Kashmir and trampling of their social, religious and political rights.
After the Friday prayers, a massive protest march was staged from the Nawab Bazaar Masjid in which people raised slogans calling for the immediate release of the Mirwaiz, other resistance leaders and thousands of other youth.
Condemning the government for yet again sabotaging the ‘UN March’ call given by the unified resistance leadership, Hurriyat (M) said the idea behind calling repeated marches to the UN office was to make the world body realize its legal and moral responsibility to help resolve Kashmir issue as per the resolutions passed by it keeping the wishes and aspirations of Kashmiris in mind and take meaningful steps to stop the bloodshed of Kashmiris as the UN had remained silent over it since 1947.
Meanwhile, an Hurriyat (M) spokesman expressed gratitude to the people of Kashmir for taking the ongoing uprising into the fourth month, and said consistency, resolve, and connect of the resistance leadership with the people was a guarantee for taking the resistance struggle to its logical conclusion.