Thursday 17th Apr, 2025
Srinagar : JKLF chief Yasin Malik today said that sowing thorns and desiring for flowers is nothing but foolishness.
He said the dictatorial way in which “Indian rulers and their Kashmiri stooges” are suppressing our peaceful freedom struggle and repressive measures unleashed against revolutionary Kashmir youth, ranging from torture to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment is only promoting violence.
“The people of Jammu Kashmir will not remain silent on harassment of Muslims in Jammu division, conspiratorial designs to alter the demography of Kashmir and change the Muslim majority character of Jammu Kashmir, promote religious discord and intolerance by constructing walls of hatred for Kashmiri pundits, planned establishment of colonies for Ex-soldiers in Kashmir, hideous plan to implement a colonial industrial policy, and threats from the puppet Chief Minister to the Ulema and religious scholars of Jammu Kashmir,” JKLF said in a statement here quoting Malik while addressing a mammoth gathering at Charar-e-Shareef today.
The mass protest jointly organized by Hurriyat (G), Hurriyat (M) and JKLF was attended by thousands of people, who raised slogans in favor of liberation of Kashmir and Palestine.
The JKLF Chairman further stated that unity of the Kashmiri nation is the need of the hour and critical to stop the Machiavellian plots of India and its Kashmiri stooges.
“Unless and until India rolls back these colonial policies, joint protests by pro-independence organizations would continue. India and its puppets in Kashmir who swear by liberal democracy continue to imprison and torture Kashmiris, cripple dissent and promote a culture of violence. Like 1987-88, history is being repeated today in Kashmir when unarmed and protesting Kashmiri youth and their relatives are being relentlessly harassed, humiliated and tortured and a new generation is being forced to pick up arms. When you have an ugly occupation, you cannot expect a beautiful resistance. Yet Kashmiri nation’s humanism remains alive,” he said.
Yasin Malik dared the rulers to explain to the Kashmiri masses as to which religious, democratic or legal principles sanctioned the killings of thousands of Kashmiri youth from 1947 to the present, particularly in the 1990s and as recently as 2008,2009,2010 and 2011.
“Mehbooba Mufti, who has recently started to invoke Islam selectively, needs to answer the Kashmiri masses as to how is her government’s policy to promote liquor and her refusal to ban the mother of many evils in consonance with Islamic tenets. When Hindu majority Indian States ban liquor it is treated as a will of the democratic majority and read as secular. By contrast, if Muslim majority Kashmir seeks a ban on liquor it is branded as a reflection of Islamic fundamentalism,” he said.
In the joint protest organized by the JKLF the following joint resolution by elderly leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, was read out in front of the masses, which was endorsed by everyone present.