Srinagar: Joint Resistance leadership on Tuesday said the chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s statement the pro-freedom leaders shy away from participating in the dialogue process was both “mischievous and misleading.”
In a joint statement the JRL comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik said that no sane person would oppose a meaningful dialogue process as a means of conflict resolution, especially when the entire nation was reeling under such gruelling repression and paying so dearly.
“Dialogue has to be aimed at that end. The offer becomes unrealistic and suspect when it is qualified with parameters and conditions like within the Indian constitution, accepting accession as final and so on,” they said in a statement.
The JRL added: “it then becomes a tool to tide over the current crisis, maintain the status quo , buy time weaken the movement and the leadership and linger on the issue, as is observed from past experience.”
They said that instead of creating an atmosphere conducive for engagement if that really was the intent, what Kashmiri people and the resistance leadership instead saw was further increase and aggressiveness in military operations like “operation all-out which is not only aimed at killing militants but also anyone who protests to instil fear of the forces in people and harass them and dissuade them from their political struggle while simultaneously all space for resistance leadership is chocked and pressure put on us to stop representing the sentiments of Kashmiri people and yield .”
