Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership on Saturday expressed strong resentment over Enforcement Directorate’s notice to JKLF chief Muhammad Yasin Malik in a 17-year-old case, terming it New Delhi’s “frustration” and “failure to face political rivals politically in the state.”
In a statement issued here, the resistance camp comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik said that these ‘ploys can’t force the resistance leadership of Kashmir into submission.’
The leadership said that issuing notice to Malik was not a new thing and Government of India through ED and NIA does so against resistance leaders and activists besides arrests them and lodge them in Tihar jail without proving any charges against them.
“Over a dozen resistance leaders and a businessman have been lodged in Tihar jail New Delhi on the fictitious charges framed by ED and NIA.”
The leadership said that the fresh move of ED to issue notice to JKLF chief reflects “frustration on part of the government of India and their acknowledgement of defeat as they have once again proved that instead of facing their political rivals in Kashmir politically, force and coercion through its agencies have been used as tools to suppress and choke further the resistance camp of Kashmir.”
The leadership said that Malik’s entire life was an open book and the way Government of India was digging oldest cases to build pressure on the pro-freedom leadership of Kashmir to “frame” them under fake charges reflects that GoI has decided to follow a policy of political vendetta, “which is destined to taste defeat.”
They also said that such ploys and “oppressive” measures were used by New Delhi in the past too but failed to break the resolve of the Kashmir’s freedom camp.
He said entire pro-freedom leadership was committed to Kashmir’s sacred movement, which has priceless sacrifices, honour and chastity of scores of women at the back of it.
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