National News

ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP): Member of the so-called Kashmir
Assembly in Indian occupied valley, Engineer Abdur Rasheed has termed the remarks of Hindu religious leader, Ravi Shankar, regarding the Kashmiri people and the ongoing movement as baseless and far from reality.
According to Kashmir Media Service (KMS), Engineer Rasheed in a statement issued in Srinagar said, “If Shankar truly believes Kashmiris don’t know meaning of freedom and are running shops in the name of resistance movement, he should never have met Muzaffar Wani, the father of martyred Hizb commander, Burhan Wani.”
“Sri Shankar and people of his thoughts should understand
that Kashmiris, who have sacrificed more than one lac lives for
legitimate cause of right to self-determination, don’t need
lessons from those who are directly or indirectly collaborators of
state terrorism.”
He said, Ravi Shankar must remember that seeking plebiscite
is something promised not only to the people of occupied Kashmir
but to the inhabitants of the entire territory that existed in
1947, as such opinion and verdict of majority has to be accepted
by the people as Kashmiris are not seeking a solution on religious
lines.
Engr. Rasheed said whatsoever the outcome of plebiscite may be,
the people of entire territory will have to accept it whole-
heartedly the same way minorities accepted it at the time of
partition in India and Pakistan.
He asked Ravi Shankar to have a debate with him and discuss
merits, all dimensions and perspectives of the Kashmir dispute at
a place and timing of his convenience.