Srinagar: Stating that the state authorities have “surpassed all limits”, Joint Resistance Leadership on Wednesday warned “appropriate response in consultation with other quarters” against summoning of “sixty more students” by National Investigation Agency.
While denouncing the NIA for extending the judicial remand of incarcerated Huriyat leaders till October 17 and issuing fresh summons to the sixty more students, the JRL including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Omar Farooq and Muhamad Yaseen Malik said that they were “seriously looking into the developments and after taking all other concerned quarters on board, we will take appropriate steps in this regard.”
They said that that ruling government stands exposed and have lost credibility.
While commenting over the unending detention of Huriyat leaders including Altaf Ahmed Shah, Ayaz Akbar, Shahid-ul-Islam, Pir Saif ullah, Meraj-u-Din Kalwal, Nayem Ahmed Khan and Farooq Ahmed Dar, they said authorities are using NIA as “war weapon in implicating resistance leaders in fabricated and false cases and subjecting them to vengeance.”
In a joint statement, they also strongly condemned the detention of Phd scholar and added that state coercion and force will have its consequences. “It is universal truth that wherever the innocent people are harassed and human rights tormented, the reaction is obvious and quite expected,” they said.
Instead of taking any action against “erring forces personnel involved in violence,” they said, the authorities were harassing student community.
They said that pushing NIA into service, the authorities are “terrorising and harassing political leadership, trader’s community, university professors, students, doctors, scholars, advocates and innocent citizens.”
Significance of the Kashmir issue will never fade, they said leadership. “India can never break our resolve, nor can bring an iota of change in the nature of Kashmir issue.”
While addressing New Delhi, they said, the government should understand the gravity of the issue, and fulfil its commitment and resolve issue, keeping in mind its historical background.
Paying rich tributes to Hizb-ul-Mujahedeen slain commander Abdul Qayoom Najar, the JRL said that he devoted his whole life for the “freedom of nation and strived for a sacred cause.”
They also extended heartfelt condolences to slain youth who succumbed to his injuries he had suffered in a grenade blast at Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
The JRL also expressed their deep concern over the incidents of braid chopping in south Kashmir and urged local Mohalla and Masjid committees to keep close vigil over miscreants involved in these immoral activities and expose them in public.
Criticizing state authorities, JRL said: “virtually they have handed over south Kashmir to its ruthless forces and unleashing a reign of terror against innocent people, thus creating chaos.”
“We are monitoring the situation deeply and keenly, and keeping in mind the sensitivity of the issue will come with the appropriate strategy.”
The resistance leadership also expressed their deep concern over the falling health of detainees in jail and strongly denounced the slapping of PSA on Abdul Hameed Dar and shifting him to Kot Bhalwal Jammu.
“People are being pushed to wall,” they said, and warned authorities of “dire consequences in case atrocities are not stopped forthwith.”
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