Daily Times

Srinagar: In occupied Kashmir, many eminent Hurriyet leaders including Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, have said that peaceful protests will continue until India gives up its anti-Kashmir plans in the territory. The leaders, in their joint statement issued in Srinagar, gave a joint call for protests against the construction of separate colonies in Kashmiri Pandits, Indian soldiers and Delhi’s so-called Industrial Policy in the territory.

The leaders termed the recent statements given by PDP-BJP regime over these serious issues as “vague, ambiguous and confusing”, Kashmir Media Service (KMS) reported. They urged the Imams of all Masajid to inform people about the serious consequences of the Indian moves, in their sermons on Friday (tomorrow).

The statement said that a seminar would also be organised on Sunday, June 12, 2016, at Hyderpora, to create an awareness about the “anti-Kashmir plans” of the Indian government, while a symbolic sit-in protest has been called to be observed on Wednesday, June 15.

They appealed the people to make the joint protest programmes a success. Condemning the curbs imposed on the movement of resistance leadership and their harassment, the continued arrest of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, the house arrest of Syed Ali Gilani and other resistance leaders, the detentions and house arrests of resistance activists and freedom-loving people, the statement said that these measures could not force the resistance leadership, and people to give up their struggle for their right to self-determination.

The All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, said that the statements of the puppet authorities, both in and outside the so-called Assembly, are ambiguous and doubtful. He pointed out that the policymakers of New Delhi were firm over their decision but due to the pressure of the public resentment, the puppet regime was following a vague approach in this regard.