MUST READ IT FRIENDS PLEZ. Senior Akali Dal leader from Punjab, Simranjit Singh Mann, Tuesday said that Kashmir issue could not be resolved without the intervention of any third country. “Indo-Pak dialogue on Kashmir issue has proved always futile and in future too it would be a futile exercise. Pakistan has no objection over the intervention of third party but it is India which is reluctant as India has occupied Kashmir forcibly,” Mann told reporters during a press conference here. He said India was acting like an Ostrich, closing its eyes and is not ready to accept reality. “It is a harsh reality that Kashmiri people want freedom from India and India is ruling over this piece of land by military might,” he said adding that India has let loose a reign of terror in Kashmir and it is following the policies which it had followed in Punjab. Coming down heavily on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for ‘failing on every front,’ Mann said, “This man is shedding crocodile tears after every killing in Kashmir. The luminaries, intelligentsia and the Court should take a stand and oust him from the chair.” “It were the political leaders who helped India invoke AFSPA in Jammu and Kashmir and now it is they who could persuade India to revoke it. It is pity these politicians follow appeasing policy and every time bend their heads before New Delhi,” he said. Holding Army responsible for Chattisingh Pora carnage, Mann said that Government of India shielded the culprits “even after it was proved that Indian Army massacred innocent Sikhs.” “India could go to any extent to meet its interests. Massacre was done to defame Kashmir freedom struggle but the world knows that the struggle of Kashmiri people is just,” he said. He said incidents like Gool, Markundal, Chattisingh Pora would continue to occur till India is present in Kashmir. “It is irony that Buddhists are being given every facility and funds and status but Sikhs in Kashmir are not being granted minority status,” he said. Meanwhile, the Dal Khalsa has called upon J&K Sikhs to join hands with Kashmiri Muslims in observing Unity Day on July 26. In a statement issued to press, Dal Khalsa chief Harchranjit Singh Dhami on Tuesday urged Hurriyat (G) Chairman, Syed Ali Geelani, to extend his appeal for unity to other minorities especially Sikhs residing in J&K as they too were at the receiving end. Pertinently, Geelani has asked the people to observe July 26, Friday, as Day of Unity between Muslim population of Jammu and Kashmir provinces and in the memory of those killed in Gool. “At this critical juncture Sikhs should lend support to Kashmiris against New Delhi’s aggression,” the statement said. He alleged that New Delhi has always played divisive role pitting one section of people against another. “India has copied British divide and rule policy in Jammu and Kashmir.” Strongly condemning the recent phase of “State repression” on Kashmiris, he said, “It is ironic that the Indian civil society and western powers were witnessing human rights abuses committed by the Indian forces as a mute spectator.” “The killings and detentions of young Kashmiris have become order of the day and the State CM Omar Abdullah is being used as a tool to suppress the aspirations of the people,” he added
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:07:37 +0000
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