‘The delegation hasn’t spelled out its mandate for engagement on a clear agenda’
Minutes after All Parliamentary Delegation (APD) reached Kashmir, Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik in a joint statement on Sunday afternoon reacted to Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s invitation to them for the meeting said everyone knows people have been shouting Aazadi on the roads for those who want to listen and writing on walls and placards for those who can see.
The leaders clarified that one fails to understand what hope to attach with a delegation which has neither spelled out its mandate for any engagement on a clear agenda.
They said nobody is more aware than Mehbooba that the Indian war machine is on a spree to kill, maim and disfigure an entire population into complete submission for demanding freedom-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. Despite killings and injuries of war-proportions she continues to perform shamelessly this role of obfuscation,” they said.
They further said that given this situation it is not surprising that even now her 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.
While commenting on Mehbooba’s outburst of few days, the resistance leadership said that the sickness of her mind touched a new low when she recently tried to justify the brutalities by saying that Kashmiri boys don’t go out to the camps with milk and toffees; that seemed to even embarrass her Indian boss sitting beside.
The resistance leaders Geelani, Mirwaiz and Malik 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 brutalised 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,” they said.
(PTK)