Reacting to the PDP President Mehbooa Mufti’s invitation for meeting the Indian Parliamentary delegation, resistance leader Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik in a joint statement Sunday said “nobody is more aware than Mehbooba that the Indian war machine is on a spree to kill, maim and disfigure the entire population into complete submission for demanding freedom from Indian occupation which is the birth right of all human beings.”
“Unfortunately Indian forces in J&K have a fig-leaf available in the shape of a quisling government fronted by her with the only brief to provide a civilian mask to a brutal military occupation,” the joint statement said and added “despite killings and injuries of war-proportions she continues to perform shamelessly this role of obfuscation”.
They further said that given this situation it is not surprising that even now her (Mehbooba’s) dominant concern, as expressed in her letter, is to “lend credence and credibility” to the Indian Parliamentary Delegation visiting Kashmir avowedly to ascertain wishes of the people.
“Everyone knows that people have been shouting Azaadi on the roads for those who want to listen and writing on walls and placards for those who can see. The dirty ambitions of the collaborators and their masters in Delhi have turned them deaf and blind,” they said.
While commenting on Mehbooba’s outburst a few days back, the resistance leaders said “the sickness of her mind touched a new low when she recently tried to justify the Indian brutalities by saying that Kashmiri boys don’t go out to the camps for buying milk and toffees; that seemed to even embarrass her Indian boss sitting beside. They should not have forgotten that a terrorized population cannot greet an occupation army but with stones.”
Resistance leaders said that Indian engagement with the people of Jammu and Kashmir has been only through state violence perpetrated through these armed forces that have killed close to a lakh and brutalized all of the population. “In politics India has deployed deceit, double talk, themselves and through their quislings, continuously for the past 70 years. These deceitful methods of crisis management through Parliamentary Delegations and Track-II only prolong the sufferings of the people and can’t take the place of a genuine transparent agenda-based dialogue to address the core issue of the Peoples’ right to self-determination in Jammu and Kashmir. That has been our consistent stand and has been spelled out recently as well in our letters to various international and global fora.”
They once again clarified saying “one fails to understand what hope to attach with a delegation which has not spelled out its mandate for any engagement on a clear agenda. “People know that it is the same parliament which has given unfettered powers to their forces to use violence to hold Jammu and Kashmir forcibly with India against all norms of civilised behaviour and international laws resulting in death, destruction, collective punishments and humiliation.”