Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar Jan 18: Separatists today termed the charge-sheet filed by the NIA against Kashmiri separatist leaders, and a businessman as “baseless, false and concocted”, stating that the leaders lodged in Tihar have “literally been kidnapped.”
Addressing a joint press conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, the separatist leaders said that deliberate attempts are being made to link Kashmir struggle with “terrorism.”
Reacting to recent remarks of Indian Army chief Bipin Rawat, they said that Kashmir movement was “love and worship” for them and that they wouldn’t surrender ‘no matter how much pressure Delhi builds on them”.
“This is being done by the Army chief only to justify the massacres of Kashmiris. Now if he wants us to be killed by his men, we would feel proud,” said Malik.
Addressing the presser over the phone, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, said that Kashmir issue is an accepted dispute by the world community and that the people of Kashmir were demanding their birth right, which is right to self determination.
“Threats by Army chief won’t force us into submission. The fact remains that our struggle will continue on all fronts. Ours is a peaceful movement and connecting us with the terrorism is a mere ploy to defame our struggle,” Geelani said.
Speaking on the occasion, Mirwaiz said that Army chief has himself admitted that Kashmiris aspire and desire something but “Delhi would crush the genuine aspirations of people through its military might.” “Leadership is duty bound to take the ongoing struggle to its logical goal and won’t surrender come what may,” he said.
The leaders also termed the charge-sheet filed by the NIA against Kashmiri separatist leaders, and a businessman as “baseless, false and concocted”, stating that the leaders lodged in Tihar have “literally been kidnapped.”
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