Avoid Strikes on Fridays: Mirwaiz

SRINAGAR: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Tuesday appealed pro-freedom parties to avoid calling strikes on Fridays.

Mirwaiz said, “When pro-freedom parties call for strikes on Fridays it gives government a reason to curb our activities. Already our activities have been curbed and government isn’t allowing us to reach out to the people. When we call for strikes on Fridays we lose an opportunity on that day also to reach out to people.”

He claimed the state government has completely failed to stop continuously worsening situation in Kishtwar and other areas of Jammu division. “Violence in Kishtwar was planned and perpetuated deliberately for electoral gains, so as to polarize the population for petty political interest,” he said and demanded immediate disarming and dis-banding of VDCs all around Jammu region.

Earlier while speaking at a seminar “Solution of disputes. a precursor to world peace” to pay tributes to Hurriyat leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz on his fifth martyrdom anniversary and others martyrs who laid their lives for the Kashmir cause, Mirwaiz said, “At a time when Kashmiri resistance leadership is being barred from even from offering prayers communal forces in Jammu were given a free hand to act on their nefarious designs. Efforts were on to push Jammu Kashmir into a communal fire so as to reap out ulterior political benefits from the dead bodies of both Hindus and Muslims,” he claimed. Categorically stating that Kashmiris were not communal, Mirwaiz said the inhabitants of the state have maintained communal bonhomie even during adverse situations.

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