Huge mandate given to Modi gives him opportunity to play decisive role in K-resolution: Mirwaiz

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Srinagar, May 31 : Jumat-ul-vida was observed with religious fervour in Kashmir. The largest gathering was observed at Jama Masjid Srinagar where thousands of faithful offered Juma prayers.

Speaking on the occasion Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that as people of India overwhelmingly voted for Narendra Modi and his party back into power, this mandate gives PM Modi the opportunity and the power to play a decisive role in the resolution of the long pending Kashmir conflict which has consumed generations of Kashmiri’s and is preventing durable peace and development in the entire region.

In a statement issued , Mirwaiz said that he believes that this issue cannot be resolved militarily or through confrontation but by dialogue and deliberations and Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s oft repeated offer of dialogue on all issues between India and Pakistan including on the Kashmir issue should be seriously considered by the new dispensation in New Delhi as the way forward.

Mirwaiz said today all Kashmiri’s irrespective of their organisational affiliations are speaking in one voice about the urgent need for resolution of the conflict. So it is an opportune time to initiate political processes which enables and facilitates conflict resolution.

Mirwaiz said as in the past Hurriyat is willing to support every such initiative which aims at peaceful resolution of the dispute keeping in view the sentiments and aspirations of the people of Kashmir who are the main stakeholders and which puts an end to decades of loss and suffering inflicted on them due to the lingering conflict.

Mirwaiz said during our engagement with Mr Vajpayee and later with Mr Manmohan Singh and after visiting Pakistan Hurriyat had put forward certain substantial measures to both India and Pakistan as a precursor to serious negotiations. Both at that time had agreed to implementing these steps to prepare ground for serious negotiations,- it included revocation of the AFSPA and other black laws, gradual demilitarization, prisoner release and initiation of a process to narrow differences between the parties to the dispute.

Mirwaiz said these measures hold true even today when the situation has only further deteriorated. He said if these steps are initiated by both sides it will bring relief to people of Kashmir and an atmosphere for sincere engagement among all stakeholders will be created for a permanent resolution.

Mirwaiz said each day our youngsters are killed in this unresolved conflict which has consumed lakhs of lives. South Kashmir has been turned into a permanent battleground, an expanding graveyard of our young, as we continue to shoulder the dead daily. We want this long cycle of killings and violence to end. We don’t want to see our youngster, or an Indian or Pakistani soldier die in this ‘forever’ conflict. India and Pakistan have to acknowledge and address the unresolved political problem in Kashmir. Without addressing the question of Kashmir, there will be repeated returns to perilous states of war as we recently witnessed.

Mirwaiz said a resolution to the Kashmir issue can transform both India and Pakistan and usher in a new era of stability and progress in South Asia, free from punishing military budgets and fear of conflict, bringing the much needed relief to the hapless people of Kashmir striving for a resolution.

“For that it is imperative that democratic processes are invoked and restored by New Delhi and the policy of repression and military approach be done away with. One measure for doing so is the release all of all political prisoners languishing in various jails across India including Yasin Malik Shabir shah Asiya Andrabi and others,” Mirwaiz said.

On the occasion Mirwaiz remembered the lakhs of martyrs of Kashmir especially the youth and paid glowing tributes to them and their sacrifices. On the occasion a resolution on behalf of JRL was readout and passed. The resolution is hereby attached. 

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