SRINAGAR:All Parties Hurriyat Conference chief Syed Ali Geelani on Wednesday expressed his anguish and dismay over the speech of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
“We had pinned hope that his Excellency (UN Sec Gen) will make a reference to Kashmir issue during his official speech. It is highly disheartening and unfortunate,” Geelani said in a statement issued this evening by APHC-g.
“It is very shocking that while referring to conflicting zones in world he did not make any mention of Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmir remains a long pending issue and UNO stands accountable and answerable as to why it ignores and shuts its eyes from this issue which tops the UN agenda since 1947,” he said.
He said that despite more than 18 resolutions passed in favour of Kashmir, “we as a nation fail to understand why this august house can’t fulfil its own commitment”.
Referring to the historical and unparalleled sacrifices of people of Jammu and Kashmir, Geelani said, “we deserve to be given due attention as this long standing conflict has engulfed more than three generations.”
Geelani while referring to current gloomy situation in state prevailing since July 8, 2016, said, “state is passing through a turmoil, facing un proportionate and brute force leaving more than 90 massacred, 250 blinded, over 12 thousand injured, 50 thousand houses ransacked, 4000 locomotives smashed and burnt, 1900 youth languishing in different police stations and more than 300 people facing the notorious Public Safety Act and many of them shifted outside the valley.”
The Hurriyat Conference chief said that Jammu & Kashmir is not merely a territorial dispute between the two neighbouring countries, but is an issue of survival for more than 1.5 million people.
Geelani said that it has always threaten the peace of the whole sub-continent creating a situation of uncertainty and political turbulence leading to a war-like situation whenever the temperatures to escalate on either side.
“Unless this bone of contention is addressed according to the wishes and aspirations of its natives, permanent peace and stability will remain distant dream,” the octogenarian leader added.
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