Srinagar: The Hurriyat forum led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq while reiterating its stand on Kashmir dispute said that the dispute of Jammu and Kashmir has to be resolved peacefully as per the wishes and aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
In a statement issued here on Thursday the forum stressed the need for a tripartite dialogue to resolve the lingering dispute peacefully. “Dialogue among the three stakeholders (Pakistan, Indian and people of Kashmir) is the best alternative method to resolve the issue that APHC has consistently advocated and even participated in”, the statement said adding that the resolution of the Kashmir issue was the best guarantee of real peace and subsequent prosperity in the subcontinent. They added that the forum would continue to pursue persistently for peaceful resolution of the lingering dispute.
Regarding demographic change in the state, the forum said, “Since 1947 there have been attempts to change the demographic character of Jammu and Kashmir and in August 2019 a final nail in the coffin was hammered in this regard. These attempts at demographic engineering are completely unacceptable to the people of Jammu and Kashmir who have totally rejected it.”
The statement further said that executive members of the forum, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt and Bilal Ghani Lone, called on the ailing executive member of the amalgam, Maulana Abbas Ansari, at his residence in Srinagar and enquired about his health and later held a meeting there. It said that another executive member, Masroor Abbas Ansari, also participated in the meeting while the forum Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, could not attend as he continued to be under arbitrary house arrest since August 2019.
The statement said that the forum members at the meeting said that the Indian government should stop issuing domicile certificates to outsiders with the view to change the demographic character of occupied Kashmir which was causing great concern among the Kashmiri people and could have serious consequences for the region. They advised the Kashmiris to be very vigilant at this time and not sell their land or any property to outsiders at any cost.
The statement said that the leaders also condemned the brutal killing of a civilian by Indian troops during a cordon and search operation in Sopore. It said that the images of a 3-year-old child crying at his martyred grandfather’s dead body are heart wrenching. It demanded an immediate end to the killings by the troops in the occupied territory.
t the leaders also condemned the brutal killing of a civilian by Indian troops during a cordon and search operation in Sopore. It said that the images of a 3-year-old child crying at his martyred grandfather’s dead body are heart wrenching. It demanded an immediate end to the killings by the troops in the occupied territory.
