Geelani concerned over dubious standards of Indian rulers

SRINAGAR: All Parties Hurriyet Conference (G) Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani has expressed concern over the dubious standards of Indian rulers exhibiting gross and visible contradictions in their words and deeds.

Syed Ali Geelani, in a statement issued in Srinagar, reacting to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Kerala speech, said that India was giving a bad name to the legitimate and just struggle of the Kashmiris for the right to self-determination.

Commenting on Narendra Modi’s speech that 18 army jawans would not be forgotten, Syed Ali Geelani said that terrorism was really a curse, and India should not forget its soldiers’ sacrifices. But, he asked, whether the Fall of Dhaka and training of Sri Lankan nationals against the state was not terrorism. 

He told the Indian prime minister that his concern over Balochistan and his interventionist policy had sent tremors across India’s small neighbours. Even in India itself there are hundreds of incidents of terror mostly against the minorities, especially Muslims. The demolition of the Babri Masjid, the killing of thousands of unarmed Sikhs in retaliation to Indira Gandhi’s assassination, and the Samjhota Express, Malaygaon and Makkah Masjid massacres are a few of the prominent and ugly slurs of state terrorism, he added.

“We shall and will fight for our sacred and noble mission till the end, but the only difference between the occupier and us is that we are weak, oppressed, humiliated, tortured and maimed with no resources and nobody to turn to for help,” he deplored.