Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Feb 22: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq today urged India and Pakistan to shun war mongering as it will lead to destruction.
Mirwaiz in his address at Friday congregation at Jamia Masjid said that the talk of strikes against Pakistan and starting a war, will only lead to destruction in entire sub-continent as both nations are nuclear powers and achieve no solution as in the past.
He said Kashmiris are against war and violence. “We are only asking for resolution of the dispute by peaceful means the most effective being dialogue. History is witness that nations even after fighting wars, have still to sit on a negotiating table to hammer out a solution,” he said.
He said people of Kashmir have been watching with dismay the treatment meted out to Kashmiri students, traders, shawl sellers and businessmen in a systematic manner and demanded safe passage to Kashmiris to their homeland.
He said that “Kashmir is a political issue and time and again I have said that Kashmir has no military solution instead it needs political handling solution.”
Mirwaiz asked that didn’t Hurriyat talked to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, but the new dispensation never revisited his approach and instead resorted to use of sheer force. This force has forced our young generation towards arms, he added.
He said people of India are being misled by a State narrative on Kashmir that obfuscates the fact of it being a dispute. “J&K is not Bihar, Himachal or any other state but an internationally accepted disputed territory divided between India and Pakistan,” he said.
Mirwaiz said: “I want to tell New Delhi that by removing security cover, booking resistance leaders by NIA and ED, incarcerating and caging and harassing them, leadership will not change its stance as our stand is was based on principles and truth that people of Kashmir have to be given their legitimate right, the right to resolution of dispute.”
Mirwaiz said he will continue to speak the same thing and advocate the same ideology that he told to Vajpayeeji and Manmohan Singh.
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