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ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP): An Indian civil society activist,
intellectual and former member of Rajya Sabha, Kamal Morarka has
said that Indian government has completely curtailed the liberties
of people in the Kashmir Valley.
According to Kashmir Media Service (KMS), addressing a press
conference in Srinagar, Kamal Morarka said, it was shameful on part
of India that they were not even allowing octogenarian leader Syed
Ali Gilani to hold a religious congregation inside his house.
He said, the situation in occupied Kashmir is scary. “I was
shocked during my stay in Kashmir. There is no democracy, no civil
rights and liberties for common people. You can’t hold a peaceful
demonstration while disproportionate force is used by the
government to muzzle the voice of the people. Despite enjoying
special status, Kashmir has become a hell due to wrong approach of
the local and Indian government.”
Kamal Morarka said the people in Kashmir laughed at him
when he talked about Indian democracy.
“People from Gujarat and Maharashtra enjoy more rights than
people of Kashmir despite the fact Jammu and Kashmir enjoys a
special status. Anger in Kashmir is everywhere. India knows the
reality and still acting as an ostrich. New Delhi is trying to
tire out people of Kashmir; little did it know that new generation
of Kashmir is up in the arms against it,” he added.
He pointed out that the current uprising in Kashmir showed
that people of the territory were united and ready to suffer
losses.
“It is stupidity on part of Indian media when they claim
that stone-pelters are paid. This is the worst journalism on part
of Indian media houses. These media house twist facts and mislead
the people of India about Kashmir,” he said.
The former member of Rajya Sabha (upper house of Indian
Parliament) said that Kashmir needed a solution and this time “if
India fails to deliver, then the situation will go out of
control”.
He said the government of India had miserably failed to win
the hearts and minds of Kashmiri people. He maintained that the
repressive policies must come to an end and space should be given
to the political leaders while maiming, killing and blinding
people should immediately stop.
Journalist Santosh Bharti, who was also accompanying Morarka
on the occasion, castigated some Indian news channels for
propagating hatred against the Kashmiri people.
“It is unfortunate that most of the Indian journalists have
become the spokespersons of politicians. The Indian print media is
reluctant to portray Kashmir in true form while news channels
thrive on lies about Kashmir,” he said and urged the Indian
journalists to visit Kashmir to know the ground reality.