Malik not allowed to meet family Says Cong-led Govt becoming crueler; Karra condemns Govt action.. Srinagar, Oct 7: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik had to return from New Delhi Monday after he was reportedly stopped from heading towards Nepal to meet his 19-month old daughter. Malik alleged that Congress-led government at Center has become crueler after elevation of Narendra Modi and hanging of Muhammad Afzal Guru is one of the examples. Malik has married Pakistani girl Mushal Hussain Malik and has a daughter with her. The JKLF chief had planned to meet her wife and daughter in Nepal. After his arrival in Srinagar, Malik addressed a press conference. “I was stopped at New Delhi Airport. The immigration people asked me for passport and election card. I gave them the Xerox copies of my expired passport and State Subject certificate, but even then they did not allow me to board the flight to Nepal where I was scheduled to meet my 19-month old daughter in Kathmandu,” Malik told media persons. “I told them I never have voted and election card is of no purpose to me. I told them I have valid identity card and other documents, but they simply stopped me from travelling to Nepal,” he said. Malik said he was not issued fresh travel documents after his passport expired and his daughter has never visited Kashmir since her birth. “My passport expired in March and since then I was not issued a new one by the government,” he said adding that her wife had applied for visa with Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad, but she was also refused. "Separating an innocent child from her father is cruel and undemocratic act by Indian rulers. Barring a little girl from seeing her father is an act that no human society can tolerate. This becomes much more condemnable when decisions like these are taken on political vendetta,” JKLF chairman said. The senior separatist leader said that there are thousands of such families. “I have seen a woman of Batamaloo suffering from cancer and her husband was not allowed to meet her in her last days,” he said, adding that body of a Kashmir youth was lying at Wagah border for eight days as his relatives were not provided with travel documents. “Later he was buried at Wagah border,” he said. Malik said, in contrast, the British government set free Jawahar Lal Nehru after his wife was critical and was taken for special treatment outside the country. Malik said after the elevation of Narendra Modi of BJP, the Congress-led government at Center has become crueler and hell has been broken loose on the people of Kashmir. He said that by doing all this, Congress is trying to gain and it has become like an offshoot of RSS. “Hanging of Muhammad Afzal Guru is one of the examples,” he said adding that 20 year old cases against Kashmiri youth are being reopened and they being convicted. “They are being given life imprisonments,” he said. “Congress now wants to show that they are true nationalists,” he said. JKLF chairman said that such tactics would “not deter the people of Kashmir and the separatist leadership from demanding freedom.” KARRA SLAMS GOVT: Senior PDP leader and former Finance Minister Tariq Hameed Karra has strongly condemned the government’s “arbitrary” move of disallowing Malik from meeting his family. In a statement issued, Karra said resorting to the inhuman tactics of forcibly keeping Malik away from his family is not only despicable bullying tactics of the government, but speaks volumes about the extent to which the government can stoop to persecute Kashmiri separatist leaders. “This is the most unfortunate thing to happen in a civilized society,” he said. Karra said using such detestable tactics to cow down the separatist leaders reflects the prejudiced mindset of the government. “Such savage and tyrannical methods are not even used during the wars against enemies,” he said and added that the government should not only allow Malik to visit Nepal to meet his wife and daughter there but also provide his family the requisite travel documents so that they can be together. He said instead of resorting to medieval methods of repression, the government must strengthen the process of reconciliation in Jammu and Kashmir by involving all the stakeholders including the separatists to find an amicable and long-lasting solution to the Kashmir problem.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 05:16:02 +0000
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