Commenting on the Supreme Court’s verdict regarding police officer Yasir Qadri, accused of killing Tengpora civilian Shabir Ahmad, Hurriyat (M) spokesman said that for a court that sent Afzal Guru to the gallows to “satisfy the collective conscience of the nation “the verdict of the supreme court “to keep up the morale of the forces ” was hardly a surprise and was along expected lines.
In a statement issued to PTK, the spokesperson while strongly condemning the government for bringing out a list of minor and teenager boys of Srinagar’s Shehar-e-Khas area and bribing people with reward to if they get them arrested as highly immoral and deplorable the conglomerate said this way authorities were playing havoc with the future of these innocent children and pitting Kashmiri against Kashmiri.
The spokesman said while Kashmir was being soaked with the blood of the civilian youth for the past month and dozens of youth, women and children were blinded with the use of lethal pellet guns, people were burning with anger over state terrorism and in such circumstances launching a campaign against innocent children was the height of oppression and avenging tactics.
Condemning the arrest of a Kashmiri youth, Tawseef Ahmad of Sopore in India’s Chattisgarh state in a frivolous case, the statement said harassment of Kashmiri students and traders, studying or working in different states of India by police of respective states has become the order of the day and continues unabated.
The spokesman also strongly condemned the dastardly act of terror in Quetta in which more than 70 innocents lost their life. He expressed sympathy with the bereaved families and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured.
Meanwhile, reacting to Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi’s speech and reference to Kashmir, Hurriyat (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that as far as what Kashmiris want the writing on the wall is clear, even literally and can be easily read by those who want to read it.
People are clearly stating what they want, India just has to stop its cacophony and listen with a view to understand and not deny.
Mirwaiz reiterated that Kashmir is a political dispute to be addressed in accordance with the wishes and aspirations of its people as guaranteed to them by the, world community and ratified by India and Pakistan.