Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) on Sunday said that the governments decision to withdraw the security of its chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and other resistance leaders ‘will not have any impact on the reality of the issue’ and ‘with or without them, Kashmir issue remains the same’.
“With or without these police personnel at Hurriyat residences all remains the same,” he said in a statement.
The spokesperson said whenever the issue has been raked, Mirwaiz has repeatedly said from the pulpit of Jamia Masjid that the Government can withdraw it.
He said that the Hurriyat leaders had never asked for it. “Infact, it was the government that insisted on keeping the personnel based on what they said was their assessment of threat perception.”
“It was the Government decision at that time to to keep it, today it’s their decision to remove it. It’s not an issue for us.”
They said that the Government and its “propagandist anti-Kashmir” media had repeatedly been raking up the issue of police personnel provided to the leadership to politicise it.
A spokesperson on the amalgam said that they know it well that it has no bearing nor can it in any way change the reality of the lingering Kashmir dispute or the situation on ground or “our principled stand and outlook regarding its resolution”.
