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| CBI report on Shopian is a fraud, DM is lying on troops reduction: Mirwaiz | | CBI report on Shopian is a fraud, DM is lying on troops reduction: Mirwaiz | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Dec 18: With almost entire separatist as well as mainstream opposition joining hands to discredit CBI’s findings and chargesheet on Shopian and nobody in the two ruling coalition parties---National Conference and Congress---providing any background music to Home Minister P Chidambram, Chairman of a faction of pro-Azadi Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, today dismissed the central agency’s exercise as a sham. The cleric-politician, who looked receptive to the Centre’s suggestion of secret dialogue until yesterday, has also told his Friday congregation audience that Defence Minister A K Antony’s claim of troops reduction in the Valley was patently false.
Even as nobody in the ruling coalition has supported Chidambram in attributing motives to a many separatist and mainstream politicians’ criticism of the CBI report and Omar Abdullah-led government deciding not to take any administrative action against the officials accused of criminal conspiracy by the central agency, Mirwaiz today came out with veritable bombshell on the ‘quiet diplomacy’ on Kashmir. In his weekly sermon at the Friday prayers congregation at Jamia Masjid, Mirwaiz alleged that CBI’s three-month-long investigation into the death of two young women---17-year-old Aasiya and 25-year-old Neelar---had turned out to be a ‘farcical exercise’.
“India has been telling lies with regard to Jammu & Kashmir since 1947. From UN resolutions to holding a fair investigation into the Shopian tragedy, India has never fulfilled any promise. Like the investigations on many massacres, recent one on Shopian has turned out to be a fraud. We completely reject CBI’s investigation as it has exonerated the criminals and framed innocent people who raised their voices against the rape and murder of two of sisters in Shopian”, Mirwaiz told the gathering. He said that New Delhi had completely lost its credibility in Kashmir and it could be restored with fulfilling the promises made to the Kashmiris from time ton time.
“CBI report on Shopian has been made according to India’s national interest. It has done no justice to the two victims of rape and murder and their bereaved families”, Mirwaiz added. While calling it a human tragedy and asserting that there was no scope for making any politics on the Shopian incident, Mirwaiz asked Government of India to assign the investigation to an international organization like Amnesty International and Asia Watch. He said that in absence of such a “credible investigation”, Hurriyat (Mirwaiz) would fully support any agitation called by Majlis-e-Mashawarat Shopian. He wished MMS to take the Hurriyat into confidence with regard to any programme on Shopian.
After treating Chidambaram’s appreciation of the CBI report on Shopian with contempt, Mirwaiz turned towards A K Antony and asserted that the Indian Defence Minister’s claim of having withdrawn two divisions of Armyb from Jammu and Kashmir was also far from truth. According to him, there was no evidence of any soldier having been removed on the ground. “If it’s true, would the Defence Minister tell us wherefrom the soldiers have moved and what exactly was there destination”.
During the course of his sermon, Mirwaiz sought to make it clear that Hurriyat could not show any enthusiasm for a suggestion of dialogue process until it was supported by “much needed confidence building measures” from New Delhi. “We are not shying away from talks but these have got be meaningful. There has to be a specific Kashmir agenda”, he added in his expression of secondary thoughts on the “quiet diplomacy” and “secret talks”. He emphasized that implementation of Hurriyat’s 5-point formula, that includes withdrawal of troops and release of all political detainees, would create a congenial atmosphere for a dialogue process with New Delhi.
Saluting the Kashmiri youth for being “enthusiastic for freedom”, Mirwaiz, advised the youngsters not to smudge the separatist movement with stone pelting “on our own people and properties”.
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