Srinagar: Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM), a constituent of United Jehad Council (UJC), an amalgam of militant organisations active in Kashmir, has said that its chief Sheikh Jameel-ur-Rehman’s statement appealing students from Kashmir to stay away from armed struggle and concentrate on their studies has been “misunderstood”.
“Sheikh Jameel-ur-Rehman made suggestion that students and children should concentrate on studies because if they join armed struggle without proper discipline, training and preparation, India and her ‘occupied forces’ will try to take advantage of it,” spokesman of TuM Dr Abdullah Haq said in an emailed statement.
“Highly educated ‘martyrs’ like Burhan Wani and Manan Bukahri are torch bearers,” the spokesman said that Sheikh Jameel-ur-Rehman’s statement has been ‘misunderstood’.
“It is clarified the suggestion by Sheikh Jameel-ur-Rehman has been misconstrued and misunderstood,” the spokesman added.
Yesterday in a statement issued here, Jameel-ur-Rehman, General Secretary of UJC, had said: “Youth are our valuable asset and if they don’t concentrate on their studies then those pro-India elements will find it easy to stretch the period of our subjugation. I request militant commanders as well to desist from giving training to budding students,” he had said in the emailed statement.
“I request the students to concentrate on their technical and professional studies as they are the ones who have to run this ongoing freedom struggle movement,” he had said.
