“Armed struggle only option” to resolve Kashmir: UJC

Srinagar: United Jihad Council (UJC) on Thursday said that the 71-year-long history has proved that India was neither willing for the peaceful resolution of Kashmir nor will be willing in future.
In an e-mailed statement issued to local news gathering agency KNS, the UJC spokesman, Syed Sadaqat Hussain while quoted the outfit chief, Syed Salah-ud-din as saying “the nation has come to the conclusion that only resistance will help them to achieve their goal.”
Addressing a high-level meeting of UJC, Salah-ud-din as per the statement said that “the peaceful struggle till 1990 was suppressed therefore indicating that there is no peaceful way to seek the resolution of Kashmir issue. The people of the nation irrespective of their age are satisfied now that the armed struggle is an only option to end the slavery in Kashmir. This was the reason that youth like Burhan Wani, intellectuals and other high qualified youth preferred to choose this way.”
“The slain militants including Dr Manan Wani, Professor Muhammad Rafi Bhat, Muhammad Maqbool Bhat, Ishfaq Majeed Wani, Ali Muhammad Dar, Masood Tantray and Shamsul Haq and various others lead the freedom struggle not only with weapons but also used their pen to highlight the struggle,” he said.
“There was a need of intellectuals and well qualified youth in the freedom struggle as these youth can defeat the Indian tactics in a well manner,” UJC chief said.
Meanwhile, UJC chief further urged Pakistan to highlight the Kashmir issue and human rights violation in Kashmir at international level and push the world community to take practical steps in this regard.
He said that “after Human rights watch of United Nations highlighted the rights violation in Kashmir in a report, the world community should have taken practical steps on the ground but that didn’t happen.”
“India is continuing with the HR violations in Kashmir. Several pro-freedom leaders, workers and activists are lodged in jails where their conditions are deteriorating. It seems that under a well-thought plan, the lives of these people are being risked,” he said, paying tributes to the slain militants who were killed since last week.