Hope Masarat starts political activities soon: Hurriyat (G)

Hurriyat Conference (G) Executive Body (Majlish Shoora) Wednesday held a meeting to discuss the latest political developments in the state and deliberated upon the future strategy.
The meeting held at conglomerate’s head office Hyderpora was presided over by Hurriyat Conference (G) General Secretary Haji Ghulam Nabi Sumji, and was attended by the heads and representatives of all its constituents.
In a statement issued here, Hurriyat (G) spokesman Ayaz Akbar said the participants expressed happiness over the release of Masarat Alam Bhat and executive body paid tributes to his courage and hoped that he will soon start his political activities.
Demanding immediate release of all other political prisoners, the Shoora said all those in jails are “heroes of the Kashmir” and “none of them is criminal”.
Terming the noise created over the release of Masarat in the parliament as ‘ridiculous’, Hurriyat (G) said this attitude is a big question on the democratic claims of India.
“Jammu & Kashmir high court has dozens of times issued release orders of Masarat sahib and he has been released on the orders of the same court. The parliament members have themselves insulted their own judiciary by questioning Masarat sahab’s release. This attitude reflects extremist policies of India towards the Kashmiri nation and it proves that India only need land of Kashmir not its people,” the spokesperson said.
The executive body expressed apprehension that ‘all this noise created upon the issue is a part of the mutual understanding of both PDP and BJP and its purpose is to project Mufti Sayeed a pro-Kashmir politician so that the Kashmir struggle will get damaged by him in future.’
Strongly endorsing and supporting the stand of Hurriyat (G) Chairman Syed Ali Geelani regarding Kashmir issue, the executive body said Hurriyat Conference is not against the dialogue process and nor are they afraid of talks but ‘unless and until India doesn’t accept the disputed nature of Kashmir and don’t not stop the rhetoric of integral part, all kinds of dialogues and talks processes will be fruitless and futile.”
Expressing satisfaction over the stand adopted by the Pakistan government vis-à-vis Kashmir issue during the recently held Indo-Pak foreign secretary level talks, the executive body said, “Unless India does not address Kashmir as its core issue, we can’t expect any breakthrough from the dialogue process of the two countries.”