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Dukhtaran-e-Millat chairperson Syedah Aasiya Andrabi on Tuesday said that the current Kashmir movement is without a roadmap and that only “calls for hartals” is not going to get us freedom*. She said that the joint resistance leadership has been calling for hartals only and have not beyond this. “This will not take us anywhere,” she said. A freedom movement has to have a well thought out roadmap to accomplish the desired results, Andrabi said. Syedah Aasiyah was addressing a Seminar at his Soura residence on the completion of Dr Qasim’s 25 years in jail. Dr Qasim is the Chief of Muslim Deeni Mahaz and husband of Syedah Aasiyah. Scores of activists of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, media persons and academics, sister of Dr Qasim and mother of Javid Ahmad Khan who is languishing in Jaipur jail for last 21 years attended the seminar. Tehreek-e-Khawateen chairperson Zamrooda Habib; DeM chairperson Syedah Aasiyah Andrabi and Secretary General Nahida Nasreen addressed the seminar and highlighted the important milestones in the life of Dr Qasim. The seminar was not advertised nor were the participants called over phone for the fear of police foiling it. As has been the practice in the past, the puppet administration has never allowed such programs to happen. On February 4, the puppet police foiled one such seminar organized by MDM in a local hotel in Srinagar. Addressing the participants, Syedah Aasiyah said that although organizing a seminar is not going to get Dr Qasim or all the other lifer prisoners released, however, the motive of the seminar is to express solidarity with all those who are languishing in different jails of Jammu and Kashmir and India. “We want to convey them that we have not forgotten you, rather you live in our hearts,” she said. Andrabi said that organizing a seminar on Dr Qasim’s completion of 25 years in jail does not mean that it is for Dr Qasim only. “Dr Qasim’s case is symbolic case. He is longest serving prisoner of Jammu and Kashmir and has blocked the way of all the other lifers of J&K. She said that to take care of the prisoners is the responsibility of the leadership of resistance movement, however, they are yet to devise a strategy to move forward in this case. “The release of all political prisoners should have been on the agenda of our leadership,” she said, “When they do not have a roadmap, how is it going to be possible,” she questioned? Our greater cause is to get India out of Kashmir, but the resistance movement have offshoots too. Taking care of the prisoners and helping them with legal aid is also the responsibility of the leadership, she said. “Our people are dying in jails. Ask a wife of a prisoner, a mother a sister who cannot meet their loved ones languishing in different jails, what they are going through. Whose responsibility is to take care of them and manage them,” she asked. Andrabi said that the leadership checks the milestones, deliberate on how much we have moved ahead and how much is left, but that is only possible after having a concrete roadmap. “I say it with complete authority that the Kashmir freedom movement is without a roadmap,” she said. She recalled that in 2013 after she was released from jail, she attended a seminar organized by the BAR association. “During my speech I deliberated upon the participants particularly Mian sb (Mian Qayoom) to take lead and organize a three day workshop. The situation then was not like today. I told them to call people from all walks of life and make a roadmap. A days seminar will not yield us anything.” She said that till date nothing has happened. “Today I again say that till we do not have a roadmap and work accordingly we will not achieve anything.” However, appealing people not to be hopeless Syedah Aasiya quoting a verse from holy Qura’an said that we do not need to fear the occupation nor do we need to fear the threats of Narendra Moodi and Rajnath Singh. We are a blessed lot, we are muslims. She said that the operation all-out lauched by the Indian occupational army in Kashmir will turn all-out for them, Insha Allah. “We should not be hopeless as to why people enmasse are not coming out against the Indian rule and that only a few people have taken to guns. History bears testimony to the fact that small groups of people have forced occupiers out.” The DeM chief saluted the sacrifices of all the prisoners, particularly the lifer convicts and said that the people of Kashmir stand firmly with them. Recalling the day of arrest when she along with Dr Muhammad Qasim and their seven months old son Muhammad bin Qasim were arrested, Andrabi said that after the arrest they were taken to the infamous interrogation centre Papa II. “Muhammad was in the lap of Dr sb. Garg was the operational chief of BSF. When he saw Muhammad in Dr Sbs lap, he told him to handover Muhammad to me. But, Muhammad cried and caught hold of his father. A police officer snatched Muhammad and handed him over to me.” She said that Garg later told her to motivate Dr Qasim to reveal whatever he knows. “I responded by saying that Dr Sb is much mature than me and he can well understand what to say and what not.” Garg told her that she was seeing Dr Qasim for the last time. She said that during all these years in jail Dr Sb has used his intellect to aware the masses about the Kashmir dispute through his unmatchable work in the form of several books. “It is the duty of the people to understand it and spread his message to all parts of the world.” Paying tributes to the valour of Dr Muhammad Qasim, the secretary general of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Nahida Nasreen said that Dr Qasim is the only prisoner since 1931 who has completed 25 years in prison and has authored 20 books during this period, which includes Tafseer Ahsan ul Hadith and The Status of Sunnah. She said that Dr Qasim has stood steadfast on his stand despite going through the worst phases of his life when even her wife Syedah Aasiya was incarcerated. She said that this is pure political vendetta for the ideology of the duo does not go down will in the power corridors of India. She said that she pays tributes to all the other political lifers of the Kashmir and said that they believe that even octogenarian Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Geelani and Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai are also serving the lifers as the duo are never allowed to move out of their residences. To mention, the Review board advocated the release of Dr Muhammad Qasim, but the government of India declined to accept the recommendations. According to the Jammu and Kashmir jail manual Dr Qasim was to be released after 20 years but again government declined to follow the manual. The council of Dr Qasim Advocate Mian Abdul Qayoom represented before the court that jail manual must be followed in Dr Qasim's case. The first hearing was held on 11th Dec 2017 and the next hearing is scheduled for 19th February 2018. If the court gives a favorable decision it would open the chances of release for the other life prisoners who have completed 20 years of imprisonment.(KNO)

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