Pro-Pakistan slogans at rally to welcome Geelani
By IANS
Sunday April 22, 10:07 PM
Srinagar, April 22 (IANS) Hardliner Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani Sunday returned to Srinagar after a surgery to a warm welcome by
thousands of his supporters who shouted pro-Pakistan slogans with one of them waving a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) flag.
Geelani, who underwent a kidney surgery in Mumbai last month, was received by large crowds, a majority of them youth, and was brought to the martyr's graveyard in the sprawling Idd Gah grounds in a long caravan of vehicles.
As the firebrand Hurriyat leader appeared on the podium, crowds greeted him with cheers and shouted pro-Islam, pro-Pakistan and pro-LeT slogans.
A masked youth hoisted a flag of the terror organisation LeT near the podium as Geelani made a robust speech rejecting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's four-point formula on Kashmir.
Police promptly registered a case for displaying the LeT flag. Inspector General of Police (Kashmir Zone) S.M. Sahai later told reporters that another case was also registered in the Safakadal police station for raising anti-national slogans at the rally.
Geelani told the huge gathering: 'The ongoing peace process between India and Pakistan will not lead to anywhere unless people of Kashmir were involved in the process and the solution has to be acceptable to Kashmiris.
'The two countries say they have reached an agreement on Kashmir and if they thrust any solution on the people here it will have great repercussions.'
The crowds comprising of youth responded with pro-LeT and pro-Hizbul Mujaheedin slogans.
'Demilitarisation has to be simultaneous from the entire state and peace in the valley will return only once the Indian troops leave Kashmir,' Geelani told the gathering at the martyr's graveyard.
Geelani's supporters had started gathering at the Idd Gah grounds right from early morning. Security forces, however, were not deployed by authorities around the venue as is the practice.
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