[Reader-list] City Muslims support Kashmiri Pandits against Geelani

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

City Muslims support Kashmiri Pandits *By:* Abhishek Anand - Mid Day

Link -
http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/oct/221010-News-Delhi-Hurriyat-leader-heckled-press-conference-Shah.htm

Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani had an agenda on his Delhi visit. Sadly,
for him, he would have to remain an unsatisfied man.Though it was not the
first time that somebody tried to communalise the Kashmir issue, it was
probably the first time by somebody from the Hurriyat.

However, Geelani's evil designs not just met with shoe that was hurled at
him at a meeting in the national capital. He also got a rude shock when
people from the Muslim community showed up with a group of Kashmiri Pandits
who reached a seminar at the LTG Auditorium on Copernicus Marg, being
attended by Geelani and Naxal supporters like Arundhati Roy.

Nasim Akhtar, 40, is one of the city Muslims who had joined the
representatives of the displaced community in protesting against the
Hurriyat hardliner.Parliament attack accused Prof SAR Geelani had organised
the seminar and the subject was Kashmir's 'azaadi'.

"These Pandits are living with me for the last many years. I can understand
their pain of being separated from their motherland. The separatists have
done great injustice with them. Even if they want a free Kashmir, it could
not be made on the basis of religious discrimination," Akhtar, leader of a
traders association in Karol Bagh, told MiD DAY.

"People like Geelani must know that divisive agenda cannot succeed," he
said. Akhtar said he wanted Geelani to know that what he was doing is wrong.
"They breathe in India's air, they wear clothes made in India, they eat food
grown in India, the live on Indian land then how could they talk against
India. If they want to quit India then I dare them to stop using everything
that is Indian."