Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 25: Separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq today urged India and Pakistan to exercise restraint along the borders and resolve the issues through dialogue.
Expressing serious concern over the fresh LoC flare-up between Indian and Pakistani troops, Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq today urged both the countries to stop the mayhem and killings at the border and start a process of peacefully settling the Kashmir dispute.
Addressing a Friday gathering at the historic Jamia Masjid, Mirwaiz said that it was a war at LoC especially in Uri, Samba and Kathua sectors as the two armies of India and Pakistan are exchanging heavy artillery fire resulting in the senseless loss of innocent civilians on both sides of the fence. He said not only civilians but soldiers on both sides of LoC also continue to get killed due to the exchange of firing.
“Such a situation has now become routine at the LoC as it remains heated most of the year with big bangs of exchange of mortars between the armies of two countries,” he said.
Mirwaiz said that unless New Delhi gives up its obduracy regarding the dispute and gives real peace a chance there is no guarantee that the situation will change and improve. He said one fails to understand why the leadership of both the countries is delaying the resolution of the issue when it is in the interest of the people of both sides to start a sustained dialogue for the resolution of Kashmir dispute, which is the root cause of tension between them.
“It is long overdue that New Delhi and Islamabad allow the leadership of two divided parts of Kashmir including Gilgit-Baltistan, Ladakh, Pakistan-administered Kashmir and this part of Jammu and Kashmir to meet with each other and decide their future course of action regarding their destiny. As such a step is of utmost importance for finding a resolution of Kashmir dispute, acceptable to all parties most importantly to the people of Jammu and Kashmir,” he said adding that Hurriyat leadership will extend its full support to every serious effort aimed at resolving Kashmir issue so that peace prevails in the region and bloodshed stops.
Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani expressed his deep concern over the loss of precious lives in recent shelling on the Line of Control (LoC).
Geelani said that unless Kashmir dispute is resolved in accordance with the wishes and aspirations of people, the risk of collision between the two nuclear powers will be devastating not only for the region, but for the whole world.
Geelani appealed to India and Pakistan to demonstrate restraint and wisdom and play a constructive role for peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue, which, he said, posed a threat to world peace.
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