[Reader-list] Mirwaiz, Malik Meet Yatris, Set Record Straight

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Mirwaiz, Malik Meet Yatris, Set Record Straight

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Srinagar, July 03, KONS: Mirwaiz Umer Farooq of the Hurriyat
Conference and Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) ,
Muhammad Yaseen Malik today met  Amarnath yatris separately in
Srinagar and Baltal, stressing that the Kashmiri people were not
against the  pilgrimage but had always maintained harmony and
brotherhood with yatris and tourists.
Speaking to large number of yatris at the TRC who had returned from
Darshan at the Amarnath cave, the Mirwaiz said that the agitation in
Kashmir was not against the Amarnath pilgrimage, but against the
designs of the government which had been hell bent on disposing off
Kashmiri land.
He assured the yatris that they would be provided all facilities as
traditionally given by Kashmiris.
Condemning the protests by Hindu extremists in Jammu, the Mirwaiz said
that these parties had always tried to serve their petty ends by
dividing people on different pretexts, and the demolition of the Babri
Masjid was an example of their tactics.
The Mirwaiz, who was accompanied by Shabir Ahmad Shah, Sheikh Abdul
Aziz, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Javed Ahmad Mir, and Ghulam Nabi Waseem,
oversaw arrangements for the yatris' boarding and lodging.
JKLF chairman, Muhammad Yaseen Malik, distributed relief items,
including blankets, eatables and other essentials among yatris at
Baltal, asserting that Islam taught religious tolerance and compassion
towards the weak.
He said that his party had always upheld communal harmony.
He asserted that Kashmiris were not against the yatra but had always
borne pilgrims on their shoulders for the journey to the Amarnath
shrine.
"But some communal forces in India have begun to stoke communal fires
in Jammu for electoral gains," he said, asking the yatris to continue
their pilgrimage without fear.