Daily Times

SRINAGAR: All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman Syed Ali Gilani along with other Hurriyet leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, in occupied Kashmir, have asked the members of Kashmir Assembly and Kashmir Council to resign from their present positions and join the Kashmir Intifada.

The Hurriyet leaders, in a joint statement, addressed to MLAs, MLCs and members of pro-Indian parties said, “India has once again unleashed its war machine to kill, maim and disfigure us intently to terrorise and suppress the entire population into complete submission. Once again Indian forces in Kashmir have a fig-leaf available in the shape of a quisling government manned by people like you to provide a civilian mask to military control. Despite killings and injuries of war proportions, you continue to perform this role of covering up the crimes of this forcible control.”

“Throughout your election campaign, you tried to justify your participation in the name of addressing issues of roads, water, electricity, with no bearing on popular freedom movement, Kashmir Media Service (KMS) reported. Thus, you motivated many a innocent people among us to vote for you. But now your worth is limited to provide a native civilian face to the brutalities of India and obfuscate the world opinion alongside the nasty jingoistic Indian media,” the statement said.

“Before your anti-people role provokes us to initiate a comprehensive boycott, we once again beseech you to quit this treacherous role, resign and come back to people, which would help remove the native civilian mask from an essentially foreign military control in Jammu and Kashmir.

This will save you from the terrible isolation that will be your fate if you continue to be on the side of the killers. As freedom beckons us and writing on the wall becomes clearer, this is the only wise and conscientious option available to you. If you still have any conscience left and if you don’t want to desert people, resign and join our freedom march,” the Hurriyet leaders said in a statement.