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ISLAMABAD,(APP): Senior Hurriyet leaders in occupied
Kashmir,opposing the setting up of colonies for Pandits and Indian soldiers in Kashmir, have asked people to be ready to foil conspiracies aimed at changing demography of Jammu and Kashmir.
This was stated during a seminar jointly organized by the All Parties
Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz-led Hurriyet forum and Jammu and Kashmir
Liberation Front at Hyderpora in Srinagar to sensitize people against India’s anti-Kashmir designs, kashmir Media Service reported.
APHC Chairman Syed Ali Gilani addressing the seminar said Kashmiri
Pandits Pandits are they brothers. They will be welcomed at their respective
homes, and not in separate colonies.
Syed Ali Gilani said: “New Delhi wants to make Jammu and Ladakh its own
entity. Demography of Jammu was changed by massacring over five lakh Muslims
in 1947.
People of Jammu region are reeling under fear of communal elements and
28,000 Village Defence Committee members. A conspiracy has been hatched to
settle 10 lakh soldiers in Kashmir.
Even BJP admitted in the J&K Assembly that it is the right of non-
locals to be settled permanently in Kashmir.”
“Similarly over five lakh Biharis who are working in Kashmir as laborers have been assured settlements in the territory. Soldier and Pandits colonies and land for non-locals to set up industries are all offshoots of the conspiracy aimed to change demography of Kashmir,” he said.
He said “people should realize the grave situation and boycott election
rallies of pro-India politicians.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq also urged people to remain watchful of conspiracies aimed at changing demography of Kashmir. “Conspiracies have been hatched to change Muslim majority character of Kashmir since 1947.
History stands testimony to how Hindutva forces and RSS including its
leader Shyama Prasad Mukherjee hatched conspiracy to change demography of
Kashmir,” Mirwaiz said.
He said 30 NGOs are working in Kashmir with an objective to divide
Muslims in the name of sects or region. “This is a plan to weaken our freedom struggle.
He criticized the elements facilitating these groups to pursue their
nefarious designs.
As far as Industrial Policy is concerned, he said it had been devised to make Kashmiri economically dependent on India. He said that the Kashmiris
would oppose the move. He urged traders, civil society, industrialists,
hoteliers and Bar Association to take a stand on these issues and pro-freedom camp will support them.
He said, by setting up separate colonies, New Delhi wants to give an
impression to the world that they Pandits are insecure and that the Kashmiri
Muslims are extremists and communal.
Mirwaiz deplored that a section of Indian media was working with pre-
conceived notion on an agenda. However, he expressed gratitude to the media in Kashmir for exposing conspiracies against Kashmir.
Senior leader of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Bashir Ahmad Butt,
urged unity to foil conspiracies to save sacrifices offered by Kashmiris for
the sacred cause of freedom.