‘Bukhari’s revelations expose Omar’s mindset’
He castigated New Delhi and Indian media for holding him responsible for over 100 innocent killings in Kashmir Valley during summer agitation of 2010. “Yes, we came up with a programme against the ‘occupation’ of India in Kashmir but it were Indian troopers and apparatus that killed Kashmiri youth in cold-blood. People of Kashmir know it well who killed more than 100 innocent youth and India can’t befool the people of Kashmir,” Aalam said adding that he always believed in peace and will always fight his ‘freedom struggle peacefully’ .
Castigating former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for claiming that Mufti Muhammad Sayeed released him from jail after a deal, Masrat Aalam said that “Omar can imagine anything as he lives in an imaginary world”. “It is just his (Omar Abdullah’s) imagination and nothing. Why should I deal with any politician and for what. I spent more than four years in prison. During all these years I challenged the grounds of my ‘illegal’ detention,” he said.
Masrat Aalam said that revelations made by then SSP Srinagar Syed Ashiq Bukhari are astounding that exposes the mindset of State apparatus. “Bukhari’s statement makes it clear that fake encounters do occur in the State of Jammu and Kashmir and such incidents are not new to the people of Kashmir,” he said adding that these revelations exposes the mindset of Omar Abdullah.
Pertinently, then SSP Srinagar Syed Ashiq Bukhari had claimed that Omar Abdullah wanted to see Masrat Aalam dead. Bukhari had claimed that Omar wanted him to eleminate Aalam in a fake encounter while his (Bukhari’s) police team apprehended Aalam in a ‘neat and clean’ operation.
Responding to a question, Muslim League Chairman said that every Kashmiri in Kashmir is under survelience of Indian security agencies. “The directions from Indian Home Minister to Jammu and Kashmir Government to put me under surveillance didn’t surprise or bother me as it is not only me but every Kashmiri is under the close surveillance of Indian security agencies,” he said adding that his release from Jail exposed Indian policies on Kashmir and every Kashmir came to know that New Delhi ‘forceably’ rules over Jammu and Kashmir. (CNS)
