SrinagarJoint Resistance Leadership, reacting to the arrest of 7 Hurriyat functionaries, Monday condemned what they described as arbitrary and illegal arrest of Altaf Ahmed Shah, Shahidul Islam, Ayaz Akbar, Merajuddin Kalwal and Peer Saifullah by the NIA on fabricated charges.
The leadership comprising of of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik expressed serious concern about the safety of these people after their sudden arrest.
In a statement issued to press, they said, A drama was enacted by the Government through its agency the NIA of first raiding, then questioning and now arresting these people, giving an impression that law and procedures had been followed and then these people arrested on grounds of some evidence being found to link them to the alleged charges. The sensationalizing propagandist anti-Kashmir electronic media of India was also brought into play to aid and abet this drama and deceit, the troika said in their statement.
It said that no evidence was found against Altaf Ahmed Shah, Shahidul Islam, Ayaz Akbar, Mehrajuddin Kalwal and Peer Saifulla in connection with any so called funding and they have been arrested as per the plan of the Government. NIA officials had repeatedly told them that sooner or later they will be arrested as the Government had made up its mind to do so.
JRL said that people of Kashmir know very well the central idea and aim behind this drama.
As the present geo political situation of the region stands and international pressure is building up on New Delhi with regard to the resolution of the Kashmir dispute and the human rights situation here, New Delhi constantly refusing to acknowledge the dispute, is working hard to ward off this pressure by projecting the people’s political struggle in Kashmir as so called Islamic terrorism aided by Pakistan, so that it does not have to engage with the political sentiment and aspirations of the people of Kashmir and Hurriyat being a representative of that sentiment, maligning and implicating it in alleged funding is part of that plan . It is also aimed at misleading the people of India.
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