SRINAGAR: Hurriyet forum Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has said that pellet guns and Indian brutalities cannot suppress the ongoing liberation movement of Kashmiris.
Addressing a public gathering in Srinagar on Saturday, Mirwaiz said that the Kashmir dispute was a living reality and the Indian government’s attempt to define Kashmiris’ movement for their right to self-determination under the rubric of terrorism could not stop people from pursuing their demands.
Neither fresh diktats to enrol clerics, nor resurrecting the infamous Special Operations Group of the Indian police can make the people give up their basic political demands and bring peace and normalcy to the territory,” he said, adding: “Had it been so, people of the subcontinent would have given up their struggle for independence.”
He said that instead of looking at ways and means to maintain the status-quo and subvert the people’s struggle, it would be in the best interest of all parties involved in the Kashmir dispute that all energies and efforts be expended to resolve the dispute in accordance with the people’s wishes and bring stability and prosperity to the region.
He said that the Hurriyet leadership was committed to representing and supporting the Kashmiris’ just struggle for fulfilment of their political aspirations.
