Separatist leaders Used Alishah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, on Thursday termed the charge-sheet filed by NIA against…
MIRWAIZ MALIK
Separatist leaders Used Alishah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, on Thursday termed the charge-sheet filed by NIA against Kashmiri separatist leaders and a businessman in terror funding
case as “baseless, false and concocted”.
Interacting with the media persons at the residence of Mirwaiz, the separatists while reacting to recent remarks of Army chief Bipin Rawat, said that Kashmir movement was “love and worship” for them and that they would not surrender “no matter how much pressure Delhi builds on us”. They alleged that deliberate attempts were being made to link Kashmir struggle with “terrorism.”
“This is being done by the Army chief only to justify the massacres of Kashmiris. Now if he wants his men to kill us, we will feel proud,” said Yasin Malik.
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Geelani, who addressed media persons over the phone as he is under house arrest, said that Kashmir issue is a dispute which is accepted by the world and the people of Kashmir are demanding their right to self determination. “We will not give in to the threats by the army chief. Our struggle will continue. Ours is a peaceful movement and connecting us with the terrorism is a mere ploy to defame our struggle,” he said.
The Army chief had on Wednesday said that people in Jammu and Kashmir were “tired of militancy as they have realised that it cannot give them what they want”.
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