[Reader-list] Armed, political struggle must for Kashmir solution: United Jihad Council (UJC)

[Kshmendra Kaul]

"Armed, political struggle must for K-solution: UJC"
 
GK NEWS NETWORK
 
Srinagar, Sept 29: The United Jihad Council chairman, Syed Salah-ud-Din, on Tuesday said a strong armed struggle and an organized political movement were imperative for the resolution of the Kashmir issue.

“It is because of the armed struggle and supreme sacrifices of militants that the Kashmir issue was resurrected from the cold storage and brought to the international centre stage. It is because of these that Kashmiri political leaders are touring New Delhi, Islamabad, US, UK and other countries from Srinagar,” said Salah-ud-Din, according to a statement faxed from AJK by the UJC spokesman, Syed Sadaqat Hussian.

“If all the present political leaders launch a unified political movement, they will never attain the stature of late Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah nor can they ever launch such a forceful and vibrant struggle he had launched and still India used him for its own interests and threw him like a tissue paper,” said Salah-ud-Din.
Salah-ud-Din said Kashmiri leadership should understand that Indian armed forces had occupied 27 lakh kanal of orchard, agriculture and forestland to strengthen its control in the state.

“These armed forces have also occupied 5600 kanal of land in Shopian area, used the tourist resorts and spread of network of railway lines, roads and tunnels for its military purposes to squeeze land for Kashmiris on Israeli pattern. Under such circumstances neither Kashmir issue can be resolved nor can the state be freed from military occupation through political efforts and futile talks,” he said, adding that talks had not yielded any result over the past 62 years. “These talks failed to get the incarcerated leaders released,” he said.

Salah-ud-Din said in 2000-2001 India had shunned its stubbornness as a result of the  pressure mounted on it through armed struggle and it leadership had acknowledged the disputed status of Kashmir expressing willingness for talks.
“The then prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, offered talks twice and announced ceasefire. The Indian army general Padmanabhan even said that there was no military solution to Kashmir issue and exhorted India to resolve it politically. In this way, Kashmir issue had come closer to solution but the then Pakistan president General Musharraf and the large chunk of Kashmiri political leadership committed perfidy with the cause and instead of mounting sustained pressure on India resorted to weaken the armed struggle,” he said.

Regretting the attitude of political leaders and terming it hypocritical, Salah-ud-Din said, “While interacting privately with intellectuals, journalists and Pakistani leaders, they explicitly say that Kashmir cannot be resolved without armed struggle. But when they speak at public meetings and conferences and during their tours to foreign countries, they talk of democracy, secularism and moderation and oppose the holy armed struggle.”

Salah-ud-Din emphatically said, “Kashmir cannot be freed from Indian control by only political lecturers, dharnas, seminars and tours. If at all the Kashmiri leaders want that issue to be resolved justly and viably, they should have to prepare themselves for a statewide strong and effective armed struggle besides pursuing the cause politically in an organized and cohesive way. Otherwise, they may get gifts and dinner and lunches in foreign countries but not the resolution of Kashmir issues.”

Expressing shock and grief over the atmosphere of bickering between media and some political leaders, Salah-ud-Din counseled restraint so that Indian agencies did not use it to their advantage. He exhorted the political parties to demonstrate tolerance and at the same time asked media not to resort to character assassination of anyone.





Wednesday, September 30, 2009 

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