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Modi’s `terrorism or tourism’ statement absurd: Yasin

ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP): In occupied Kashmir, in the backdrop
of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kashmir, the
Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin
Malik has said that roads and tunnels cannot make a nation change
its freedom course.
Muhammad Yasin Malik in a statement issued in Srinagar said,
“If tunnels and roads would have been a substitute to freedom and
dignity, then British should have never left India as it had
developed Indian infrastructure enormously. People who sided with
British during Indian freedom struggle can never understand the
ethos of freedom struggle and psyche of freedom lovers,” KMS
reported.
Malik reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertions
at Udhampur said, “The statement of Indian Prime Minister that
`Kashmiris should choose between terrorism and tourism and that
youth striving for freedom are misguided’ is absurd.
British ruled India for more than 200 years and during that
period they developed Indian infrastructure enormously. It was
British who developed Indian railway system and irrigation canals
that are until now benefitting whole South Asia and if the
standards of Modi Ji were to be applied then British should never
have left Indian neither should have Gandhi, Nehru, Subash Chander
Bose, Baghat Singh and Moulana Azad strived for the freedom of
India,” Malik said.
“Our reply to Modi Ji is the same that was given by Gandhi
ji to a British envoy who had posed same type of question to him
that how can poor Indian survive independently, Gandhi had replied
that he would prefer a non-competent poor independent rule over a
competent and wealthy forcibly controlled nation,” he said.