Srinagar: In occupied Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik has said that the protest calendar issued by joint resistance leadership enjoys the people’s support as all stakeholders from different professions are consulted every week for the preparing of the calendar.
Muhammad Yasin Malik in a media interview in Srinagar said, “The calendar is there on the demand of the people. We consult all stakeholders, including businessmen, transporters and teachers. As long as people want this calendar, it will go on.â€
During the interview, he said the puppet regime was burning schools in the Valley. Many schools were burnt in Kashmir. “Is burning schools a solution?
Every freedom organisation condemned the burning of schools. Who are making confrontations with the students? Who are forcing exams on them? It is the local regime,†he added.
The JKLF Chief said martyred Burhan Wani was forced to pick up guns after he was tortured by police and Indian paramilitary forces.
He said the weekly calendar released by the joint leadership can be relaxed if the people want it. “Burhan Wani and other youths were part of a non-violent movement during the 2008-10 agitation. However, police and the forces tortured them. This forced them to pick up guns.â€
Yasin Malik justified Wani’s act of picking up the gun. He predicted that the uprising in the Valley would continue in some form or the other, until the Kashmir dispute is resolved.
“The present regime does not believe in negotiations. It wants to break the will of the people, crush and kill them. Ours is a freedom movement, which has been going on since 1947. The speed at which it goes forward may vary, but it will go on until the Kashmir issue is resolved,†he added.
