Describing the restoration of normal relationship between Pakistan and India beyond the realm of possibility, the Chairman APHC Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that the growing uncertainty in the security scenario of J&K, increase in human right violations and ever increasing tension on the boarders point in the direction that the road to the normalization of relationship and prosperity of the subcontinent passes through held Kashmir.
Mirwaiz said that the current fragile situation at the boarders between India and Pakistan make it amply clear that the sensitivity of Kashmir issue can't be ignored any further. Expressing his deep concern over the loss of life and property of the people on both sides of LoC and their migration to safer places due to continuous shelling and firing on the border, Mirwaiz said that change in the ruling regimes was not going to making difference on the ground, because Kashmir was not an issue of the government formation but was about the shaping of destiny and without giving the people of Kashmir their due right the issue was not going to be resolved.
Paying tributes to Talib Ahmad Shah, who was recently martyred at Pulwama, Mirwaiz said that suppressing the aspirations by use of brutal force and thus pushing the youth of Kashmir to the wall, inspires the educated youth to jump in the armed struggle. Talib Ahmad Shah, who had a Masters degree, is a glaring example of the fact that how a young person got compelled to take gun, by the daily harassment of the police. Mirwaiz said that 68 years have passed, however, people of Kashmir could not be made to give in by the use of suppression and coercion. He said that it would be better for the leadership of India to realize that the attempts of ever increasing suppression end up in creating more resistance.