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Mehbooba sold collective interests, Kashmiris’ identity for chair: Gilani

ISLAMABAD, (APP): The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet
Conference, Syed Ali Gilani has said that India is working on different plans including construction of soldier colonies, separate townships for Kashmiri Pandits and introduction of Industrial Policy to prolong its forced occupation over Jammu and Kashmir.
Syed Ali Gilani said this while presiding over the meeting of APHC
advisory council at his Hyderpora residence in Srinagar.He said that work on
these anti-people projects had been expedited since the PDP-BJP coalition came into power. He pointed out that communal forces had started materializing the dream of RSS through use of government machinery.
He said that no Kashmiri was against the return of Pandits but
Indian policymakers wanted to divide Muslims and Pandits in the name of
religion,reported KMS.
He said Mehbooba Mufti and her party (PDP) are extending their every
help and cooperation in the execution of these communal agendas and she had
sold the collective interests and the identity of the Kashmiris for the chair.
He said that the recent statements of the BJP leaders regarding the
Soldier Colonies have proved that Mehbooba Mufti, her cabinet members and some officials of the civil administration were lying over this issue and are keeping the people in dark.
On the creation of the separate townships for the Pandits, Syed Ali
Gilani reiterated his stand that no Kashmiri is opposing or against the return of the Pandits to the Valley. Both the communities had lived in harmony in the past and they will continue to do so in the future.
He said that the policy-makers of India wanted to divide the two
communities on the religious lines and want to project Kashmir as a communal
issue. He said that Kashmir was not any Hindu-Muslim issue but it was the
battle between an oppressor and the oppressed and `we are fighting India
because this country had snatched the freedom rights of the people of Kashmir and we want that it (India) should fulfill its promises made with the Kashmiris on national and international levels.