Srinagar, Dec 31 (KNS): Terming the statement of Pakistan that Kashmir remains the main cause of confrontations between New Delhi and Islamabad and that peace in South Asia would remain a farfetched dream without the resolution of Kashmir issue as realistic, Hurriyat (M) spokesman has urged Indian leadership that for the betterment of crores of people of the subcontinent it should positively respond to Islamabad’s dialogue offer on Kashmir to resolve the 70-year-old dispute between the two countries by reaching at a long-lasting solution to the vexed issue.
Stressing that New Delhi needed to give up its stubbornness and obduracy, the spokesman said that the time has come to take measures for the long-lasting resolution of Kashmir dispute as the issue was the main cause of confrontation between the two nuclear neighbours and thinking of settling other disputes without resolving Kashmir amounted to live in a make believe world.
According to a statement issued to KNS, denouncing the ruling class for the arrest of senior resistance leader and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik from south Kashmir’s Pulwama area and later detaining him at Central Jail Srinagar, the Hurriyat (M) spokesman said using black laws against the resistance leaders had become the norm of the ruling class which often talks of respecting democratic norms and laws but unleashes dictatorship in the disguise of democracy, but such aggressive tactics were never going to cow down the resistance leaders into submission.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
Meanwhile the spokesman has expressed satisfaction over the release of senior resistance leader and Jammu Kashmir Awami Action Committee (AAC) General Secretary, Ghulam Nabi Zaki, who was held at Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu under the infamous PSA for months and then at Police Station Sopore for two weeks. He was finally released on Friday. The spokesman has called for immediate release of hundreds of other political prisoners who have been detained arbitrarily. (KNS)