Bandipora 25 March (KNO) : Lashing out at national media for its character assassination campaign against pro-resistance camp, AIP Supremo and MLA Langate Er. Rasheed has said that son of newly appointed Huriyat Chairman Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai is not the first youth hailing from a pro-resistance leader’s family who is suspected to have taken the arms.
While addressing a public meeting at Mantrigam Bandipora today Er. Rasheed said “In his very first statement Mr. Sehrai defined contours of the movement with much clarity and as such there should be no confusion in the minds of anyone that pro-resistance leadership wants a peaceful resolution to the Kashmir dispute in light of its historic perspective. One has a right to defer with the political philosophy and the ideology of Sehrai Sahab, Jamat-I-Islami and other pro-resistance parties but we need not to forget that scores of top ranked leaders from Jamat-I-Islami have lost their sons during the ongoing resistance movement since 1989.
Hundreds of Jamat-I-Islami activists were butchered by forces and counter insurgents and their huge sacrifices cannot be down played. We all wish Sehrai Sahab’s son well and the propaganda which is going on in the national media is nothing but a shameless attempt to mislead Indian masses and world community by creating a debate over Sehrai Shab’s family. There can be a difference of opinion in Sehrai Sahab’s family as well and it is not necessary that Sehrai Sahab’s family members may be in agreement with each other over every point”. Er. Rasheed accused New Delhi of diverting from the real issue and said that cosmetic measures will never work.
He said “The only way to stop youth from joining militancy is to offer unconditional dialogue to militant leadership. New Delhi needs to realize that just trying to confuse the situation and put negative pictures about Kashmir dispute before the world community will prove counterproductive at the end. It is disgusting that national media every evening abuses not only Kashmiris but also crosses the limits during debates by dragging Islam, Shariyah and caliphate in every issue, without knowing the real spirit and message of Islam.
Nobody needs to feel sacred of Muslims and neither do Kashmiri Muslims need a certificate from New Delhi and its biased media of being tolerant”.(KNO)