ISLAMABAD: Senior Hurriyet leaders in occupied Kashmir, opposing the setting up of colonies and Indian soldiers in Kashmir, have asked people to be ready to foil conspiracies aimed at changing the demography of Jammu and Kashmir. This was stated during a seminar jointly organised by the All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC), Mirwaiz-led Hurriyet forum and Jammu and Kashmir
Liberation Front at Hyderpora in Srinagar aimed to raise people’s awareness against India’s anti-Kashmir designs, Kashmir Media Service reported. APHC Chairman Syed Ali Gilani, addressing the seminar, said Kashmiri Pandits were their brothers and would be welcomed at their respective homes, and not in separate colonies. Syed Ali Gilani said: “New Delhi wants to make Jammu and Ladakh its own entity. Jammu’s demography was changed by the slaughter of over 500,000 Muslims in 1947. People of Jammu region are reeling under fear of communal elements and 28,000 village defence committee members. A conspiracy had been hatched to settle 100,000 soldiers in Kashmir. Even BJP admitted in the J&K Assembly that it was the right of non-locals to be settled permanently in Kashmir. Similarly, over five lakh Biharis, who were working in Kashmir as labourers have been assured settlements in the territory. He said “people should realise the grave situation and boycott election rallies of pro-India politicians.”Mirwaiz Umar Farooq also urged people to remain watchful of conspiracies aimed at changing the demography of Kashmir. “Conspiracies have been hatched to change Muslim majority character of Kashmir since 1947. History stands testimony to how Hindutva forces and RSS including its leader Shyama Prasad Mukherjee hatched conspiracy to change demography of Kashmir,” Mirwaiz said. He said 30 NGOs are working in Kashmir with an objective to divide Muslims in the name of sects or region. “This is a plan to weaken our freedom struggle. He criticised the elements facilitating these groups to pursue their nefarious designs. As far as industrial policy is concerned, he said it was designed to make Kashmiris economically dependent on India, saying the Kashmiris would oppose the move. He urged traders, civil society, industrialists, hoteliers and Bar Association to take a stand on these issues and pro-freedom camp will support them.
He said New Delhi wanted to give an impression to the world that Pandits were insecure and that the Kashmiri Muslims were extremists and communal. Mirwaiz lamented that a section of the Indian media was working with pre-conceived notion on an agenda. However, he expressed gratitude to the media in Kashmir for exposing conspiracies against Kashmir. Senior Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front leader Bashir Ahmad Butt urged unity to foil conspiracies to save sacrifices offered by Kashmiris for the sacred cause of freedom.
