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

[Shivam Vij शिवम् विज्]

Apart from NDTV, the Delhi media seems to have ignored this.
Shivam

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Shivam Vij शिवम् विज्
<mail at shivamvij.com> wrote:
> Mirwaiz, Malik Meet Yatris, Set Record Straight
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> http://www.kashmirobserver.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=377:mirwaiz-malik-meet-yatris-set-record-straight&catid=50:localnews&Itemid=81
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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.
>