JRL Calls For 2 Day Shutdown Against NIA Raids, Arrests, Tinkering With 35 A

Srinagar: The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik has called for two day shutdown against the NIA raids against the whole resistance leadership, widespread spree of arrests in nook and corner of Kashmir and continued threats to tinker with state subject law under the pretext of Article 35, the hearing of which is scheduled on Wednesday at Supreme Court.
The JRL in a statement issued to GNS said, “Kashmir has not, cannot and will never budge before this state-sponsored terror and watch all this mutely. Nation of Kashmir will observe complete and comprehensive shutdown against these colonial acts on 27 and 28 February 2019.”
While strongly condemning the “show of dictatorial crackdown” against the people of Jammu Kashmir, JRL said that sleuths of NIA accompanied by Kashmir Police and CRPF started raiding the residences of Mirwaiz Muhammad Umar Farooq, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, incarcerated Shabir Ahmad Shah, incarcerated Masarat Aalam Bhat, Syed Naseem Geelani son of Syed Ali Geelani, Zaffar Akbar Butt and others.
NIA accompanied by local police officials even did not bother to knock the doorbells and straightaway barged into rooms of leaders and started vandalizing their houses and intimidating their families, the statement said adding that this “act of clear vengeance” in many cases continued from early morning till late in the day and ended after the complete devastation of the houses and families under siege.
The leadership said that a war has been unleashed against the people of Kashmir “to satisfy manipulated collective conscience” of Indian people who are being provoked through “biased” media channels and “raucous” debates by Indian leaders.
“Barging into privacy of homes without a knock, vandalizing houses in the name of search and intimidating families can only be termed as worst form of hounding by NIA and police who have today descended to lowest of ethics and morality in Kashmir,” JRL said adding that “this act of revenge is aimed at providing a legal cover to spree of arrests and break the will, valor and courage of the people of Jammu Kashmir who are striving for a just and sacred cause”.
“Prior to these NIA raids which are in fact act of bullying; whole Kashmir has been turned into a battlefield where old and young, political or non political are being raided, arrested, put into jails and suppressed by police, army and other occupational forces. Not only leaders and activists of political organizations are being bundled but leaders and Ulema belonging to religious, social and other walks of life are also being arrested and till date thousands have been put in jails in a bid to suppress the voices of Kashmiris.”
JRL said the main purpose of all these “anti-Kashmir” operations is to secure votes in upcoming Indian parliament elections and thus Kashmir is being put to flames for satisfying the lust of power by Indian rulers.
Taking a dig at the “criminal silence” of the international community especially the world powers, JRL said that the world is watching a “tiny nation” Kashmir being crippled undemocratically by military and police might of India but is maintaining mum for safeguarding their economic, trade and strategic ties with India which is highly regrettable.
Kashmiris have witnessed hardships, crackdowns and military occupation from last seventy years and these hardships and apathy will never succeed in defeating our passion for freedom and right to self-determination which is guaranteed to us by international covenants and agreements.
Asking people of Kashmir to remain ready for “every eventuality from Indian rulers and their abettors”, JRL said that “our lives, families, existence, resistance and everything is in danger and we as a nation should remain vigilant and be ready to launch a passionate people’s revolution against this hegemonic attitude of India”. (GNS)