While terming the Indian Prime minister’s special envoy and track two diplomat S K Lambah’s remark on Kashmir as ‘unrealistic, traditional rigid and stubborn’, Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Geelani Wednesday said that Kashmir nation will not accept ‘any solution which will be against their aspirations, emotions and sacrifices of its citizens’. He said: “Kashmir is not a border dispute between India and Pakistan which can be solved by Lamba or the leadership of both countries.” “It is the matter of right to self-determination of 13 million people and no power in the world can stop them from this basic and birth right,” he said. The APHC chairman termed Lamba’s remark that Kashmir dispute can’t be solved through force or power a ‘beautiful joke’. Geelani said: “It is the Indian government who wants to solve this internationally accepted dispute by its military might and we are continuously asking New Delhi that it can’t force any nation to surrender by using its military might nor can it kept Jammu and Kashmir under its illegal and forced occupation for long.” While terming Lamba’s suggestion of converting the Line of Control into the permanent border as a ‘language of a military officer rather than a diplomat’, the pro-freedom leader said: “Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan, Ladakh and Azad Kashmir are a single territory on which a bloody line has been drawn in 1947 and its people were forcibly separated from each other.” “If the Kashmir nation will accept this forced partition, then what was the aim of 67 years struggle and for what purpose our nation has sacrificed lakhs of innocent lives?” the 85-year-old asked. Geelani said: If Pakistan will favour the conversion of this bloody line into the permanent borders, Kashmiri nation will not accept it. Out rightly rejecting the suggestion of Lamba of taking any help from Shimla Agreement and Lahore declaration for solving the Kashmir issue, Geelani said that there was no participation of the principal party to the dispute i.e. Kashmir People, in formulating these agreements or declarations so these agreements doesn’t have any importance and credibility nor are we bound to accept these agreements. “Until India and Pakistan will not respect and take into consideration the emotions and aspirations of Kashmiri people, while formulating any agreement till then these agreements are merely a bundle of useless papers and documents and these type of agreements have neither benefited in the past nor will they be useful in future,” he said.
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 16:10:34 +0000
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