Reacting sharply over
the killing of young Hizbul Mujahideen district commander Burhan Wani by
security forces, Junaid
Qureshi, son of Kashmiri separatist leader Hashim
Qureshi, on Saturday said the Kashmiri youth need to understand and
need to ask this question to these separatist
leaders if Jihad is so pious then why don't they or their children
pick up guns?
"All the
children of these leaders are tucked away in safe environments in schools in
Malaysia, America, London or India, and poor people's sons are dying on streets
and they are glorifying it. The Kashmiri youth need to understand and need to
ask this question to these leaders if Jihad, if this gun is so pious why don't
you pick it up, why don't your children pick it up? This bloodshed must
stop," said Junaid, an Amsterdam-based Human Rights activist.
"A youth of
Kashmir has lost his life. Many people, many youth in Kashmir, whether
justified or unjustified, have a lot of resentment. They are angry, but we can
see what it does when you chose violent ways to give vent to your resentment
and to your anger. At the end, Burhan Wani met his inevitable fate, he was
killed. It's sad to see Kashmiri youth dying like this," he added.
"This young boy
(Wani, 22), who is just the age of my brother, could have been a doctor, an
engineer, a writer, a poet, or an actor. He could have found so many other ways
to give vent to his resentment, and to make an appeal for his genuine demands.
But, we must understand and the Kashmiri youth must understand that picking up
guns is not the way which will get us somewhere," said Junaid, whose
father had hijacked an Indian plane to Lahore in 1971.
"One Burhan Wani died today, another will die tomorrow
until and unless we understand that the picking up the gun is not a way out.
India has lakhs of army stationed in Kashmir. We have already picked up the gun
26 years ago, what did we achieve? People died. This must end. This violence,
this bloodshed must end," he added.
Making an appeal to
the Kashmiri youth to shun violence and opt for some other civilised way to
vent their resentment, Junaid said, "The youth of Kashmir must understand
and their leaders should understand as well that one Kalashnikov, a hundred
Kalashnikov, a thousand Kalashnikov are not going to make a difference to the
Kashmir issue."
"The Kashmir
issue can only be solved on the table and you have to deserve a place to get to
that table, you have to have your arguments ready. You need to give vent to
your resentment in some other civilised way," he added.
Wani and two other
terrorists were killed in an encounter with a joint operation launched by the
Rashtriya Rifles (RR), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Jammu and
Kashmir Police in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday.
The 22-year-old
Internet-savvy Kashmiri terrorist was a resident of Dadsara village in south
Kashmir's Tral area. He left his home in 2010, days before taking the Class 10
examination to join the region's frontline indigenous militant outfit Hizb and
soon rose to become its district commander and figured in the list of most
wanted militants.
Wani had last month
released a video warning of attacks on separate colonies for Sainiks and
Kashmiri Pandits if they were set up in the Valley. The major part of the video
message, however, was directed at the Jammu and Kashmir Police warning them of
more attacks.
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Source: ANI
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