No Peaceful Means Can Solve Kashmir:
Salahudin
ISLAMABAD:
United Jihad Council chairman, Syed Salahuddin today criticised those who are
calling for settlement of the Kashmir issue through peaceful means accusing
them of ‘deceiving’ the innocent Kashmiris. Salahudin claimed that an armed
struggle was the only way to resolve the dispute. Salahuddin, who is the
supreme commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, said that “experience of the past 65
years should convince any one that only a strong and target-oriented armed
struggle across Indian-controlled Kashmir could win freedom”. Addressing a
press conference, he said that the Kashmiri people, leadership and the state of
Pakistan should prepare themselves for it. Otherwise freedom will remain a
distant dream, Dawn News reported on Monday. The press conference was held at
the end of a procession staged by the supporters of Hizbul Mujahideen to mark
the 'right to self-determination day', the report said.
The
UJC leader said he supported political movement, but was opposed to what he
called a fragmented and fractured political struggle. According to the report,
he claimed that about 150 rounds of talks with India had failed to produce
anything. He said it was the armed struggle that had forced foreign troops to
leave Vietnam, Algeria, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq and once again it was
compelling the US and allies to withdraw from Afghanistan, the report said. He
said the trans-Kashmir travel, trade of potatoes and onion, internal autonomy
or division of Kashmir could not be a substitute for freedom.
He said that the
ongoing Pakistan-India talks and confidence-building measures on trade and
travel were a bane for Kashmiris, because these were virtually sidelining the
core issue, the report added. Agencies
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