‘Cancellation’ of Pandit townships victory of Kashmir ‘nation’: APHC

While terming the cancellation of separate townships proposal for Kashmiri Pandits as the “victory of the endeavor, unity and brotherhood” of the Kashmiri nation and “defeat for the communal mindset”, the Hurriyat Conference (G) said “one day the government of India will similarly shun its rigid and stubborn stand” with regarding to the Kashmir issue and “will accept the reality” and “on that day they would be left with no other option other than to provide the right to self determination for the people of Jammu & Kashmir.

In a statement issued to GNS, Hurriyat spokesman Ayaz Akbar said: “Once again welcoming the return of the Kashmiri Pandits, Hurriyat Conference said that they are integral part of our society and we assure them that they are very safe in the neighboring of their Muslim brothers and they will live with dignity in their homeland,” adding, that the cancellation of the separate townships is not the victory or defeat of any particular section of the society but it is the victory of the centuries old brotherhood of the whole Kashmiri Nation.

He said: “Kashmir is not any Hindu-Muslim dispute but it is the issue of the right to self determination of a nation in which Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist and Christian live like brothers.”

“All the formalities with regarding to the separate townships were completed from Delhi to Srinagar and Mufti Sayed had also assured the allotment of land to the Indian Home minister Rajnath Singh but the united stand of the resistance leadership over this issue dissipated the Israeli pattern of policies of the New Delhi and they now understood that the entire Kashmiri nation including the Pandit brothers will not allow anybody to divide the state on religious lines,” he said.

Hurriyat spokesman said that the U-turn of the Indian government regarding the separate homeland have strengthened the resolve of the Kashmiri nation and their trust got further firmer “that one day the rulers of India will announce in the parliament that Kashmiris will be given their right to self determination”.