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Majority wants JK to be independent
Srinagar: A day after Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani told a private TV channel that his first choice was that Jammu and Kashmir should accede to Pakistan, pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) today asserted that majority of Jammu and Kashmir wants to see the state as an independent entity.
Reacting to Geelanis assertion that independence was not a practicable solution, JKLF leaders Bashir Ahmad Bhat, Ghulam Rasool Eidhi, Noor Mohammad Kalwal, Showkat Bakshi, Mohammad Iqbal Gandroo, Javed Ahmad Zargar, Mir Mohammad Zaman, Mohammad Yasin Bhat and others said that several policy groups and media organizations of world have already conduced surveys and studies which have indicated that 85 per cent of the people want independence both from India and Pakistan. (Comment-Ofcourse this is only in the valley where 55% of the population of J&K lives, Jammu and Ladakh are similarly pro-India)
In a statement issued here, the JKLF leaders, without naming Geelani said that a leader of the movement, in an interview to an Indian TV channel had described the option of independence as impracticable.
The option of independence is not only practicable but a realistic solution to the long pending issue of Jammu and Kashmir, the statement said, adding if granted independence, water and other resources of Jammu and Kashmir would make it a self reliant state that can rub shoulders with other free nations of the world.
The concept of independent Kashmir was introduced by Baba-i-Quom Mohammad Maqbool Bhat who sacrificed his life for the ideal and right from 1988 JKLF united the entire nation under the independence slogan, the statement said.
The statement said that JKLF will respect the peoples verdict whether they vote for India, Pakistan or complete independence and added that the leaders should not issue statements that create confusion among the ranks of the people.
Family of Ishtiyaq Ahmad Khanday, 16, who was killed on June 29, says money won’t heal their wounds. “My cousin and three other boys were shot in the compound of our house. He wasn’t part of any protest, but still he was killed,” says his cousin Asif. “We know the policemen who killed him. For us, the biggest compensation will be if they are punished.”
Are they being used as human shields by the other protestors/separatist leaders so that their death can be used to generate more anger and consequently the cycle of violence continues ?
Not all of them were protesting nor were any being used as human shields:The question also goes back to their parents as to what were they thinking of allowing such young kids to be outside when they know that the situation is volatile and that anything can happen.
Family of Ishtiyaq Ahmad Khanday, 16, who was killed on June 29, says money wont heal their wounds. My cousin and three other boys were shot in the compound of our house. He wasnt part of any protest, but still he was killed, says his cousin Asif.
And do you except them to never go outside as long as they is some danger? That means that you shouldn't ever go outside because they is always a chance of danger the second you leave your house.The question also goes back to their parents as to what were they thinking of allowing such young kids to be outside when they know that the situation is volatile and that anything can happen.