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| Geelani spits on Farooq’s offer of dialogue | | ‘Sheikh Abdullah and NC are traitors who sold off Kashmir to India’ | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Nov 7: Treating the National Conference patriarch and Union Minister of New & Renewable Energy Dr Farooq Abdullah’s advice of accepting New Delhi’s offer of resolving the Kashmir crisis through a negotiation process, separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani today asserted that the “Kashmiri peoples’ struggle for freedom from India” would continue in absence of any a “meaningful dialogue process”. He called Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, his progeny and political party “traitors responsible for selling off Kashmir to India” and claimed that men like Farooq Abdullah had no business to send him offers and advices.
Addressing a Muslim League sponsored seminar in memory of “martyrs of Jammu” (men of Muslim community killed in communal riots of 1947), Chairman of the hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference and former Jamaat-e-Islami ideologue, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, lashed out at Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, his progeny and National Conference (NC) and held them responsible for having sold off Kashmir to India for power. Obviously responding to Dr Abdullah’s offer of joining a dialogue process with the Centre, that had come at the union cabinet Minister’s news conference last evening, Geelani asserted that “traitors like Farooq Abdullah” had no business to send him advices and offers of a dialogue on the Kashmir dispute.
Geelani said that Sheikh Abdullah, his party and progeny had stabbed the Kashmiris in their back by “selling off Kashmir to India for power”. “We have no ambitions for power. Ours is the struggle for freedom. It will continue till we achieve our goal”, Geelani said and sweared that he would never commit treason with the people of Kashmir and “thousands of martyrs who have contributed their blood to the freedom struggle”. He said that Farooq Abdullah and others of his clan were the messengers of secular politics and added that there was no room for “la deen siasat” (secularism) in the “Kashmiris’ freedom struggle”.
Geelani asserted that his fresh campaign for total demilitarization in Jammu & Kashmir was phase one of a greater struggle. He said that he would not take rest until the last Indian soldier was withdrawn from Jammu & Kashmir. “Those advising me for mercy to the Kshmiris have brought in Army and strengthened the Indian occupation on Kashmir. How do they have temerity to advise us on peace and dialogue?” Geelani asked with an obvious reference to Dr Abdullah.
Commenting on Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s recent offer of dialogue, made in Srinagar last fortnight, Geelani said that Government of India had never initiated a “sincere and meaningful” dialogue process with the Kashmiris. “It is all bound to be an exercise in futility if held like a host of dialogue processes witnessed in the past”, Geelani added. He cautioned pro-dialogue Kashmiri separatist leaders to realize that their mistake (of holding talks with the Centre without J&K being declared as disputed and without associating Pakistan with the process) would have the potential of making the Kashmiris cry for centuries.
Geelani said that if Government of India was really sincere in resolving the Kashmir dispute by way of a dialogue process, it should immediately involve Pakistan and make it a tripartite initiative, begin withdrawal of its troops from J&K and release all political detainees.
The seminar was addressed on identical lines by President of High Court Bar Association, Mian Abdul Qayoom, Dukhtaraan-e-Millat supreme Asiya Andrabi and other separatist leaders and ideologues.
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