Yasin Malik files police complaint against Delhi-based TV journalist

Srinagar/May, 19: Accusing a New Delhi-based female TV journalist of barging into his bedroom without permission, Chairman JKLF Muhammad Yasin Malik on Friday said that he has filed a complaint against the journalist with the police.
He alleged that Indian media was taking diktats from Army to defame freedom movement in Kashmir.
“I was sleeping and all of a sudden, a female TV journalist from New Delhi barged into my bedroom on the pretext of interviewing me. She had lied to my sister that she had fixed an appointment with me. The fact is she never called for an appointment,” Malik told a crowded press conference here.
He alleged that the reporter started video recording with her mobile.
“This gesture of the journalist triggered my anger and I snatched her phone. I ask the journalist community of India and J&K whether this is the way to interview a person,” Malik said. “She then created a scene by crying and alleging that I manhandled her, which is very unfortunate.”
Malik said he has filed a formal complaint against the reporter for “breaching the privacy of a person.”
“These Indian media personnel should done army uniform while performing their job because they are working for the agencies,” he said and added that if India claims to be economically sound, then why it failed to crush Kashmir freedom struggle and why it failed to buy the loyalties of the people. “Do India think a Kashmiri youth will receive Rs 500 to face pellets and bullets. India class have virtually become mentally and ethically bankrupt,” he said.
Malik challenged the Indian media to prove whether he has bought any property in the name of freedom struggle. “I continue to live in a small two bedroom house of my parents and do not hold any other assets. I challenge the Indian media and the Indian intelligence agencies like the NIA to disprove my claim. In case they are able to prove any claim of corruption against me, I will give up resistance politics for good”,” Malik said.
He said the freedom struggle of Kashmir is sacred for us. “It is our love and faith and not a business. Sections of Indian media which thrive on sensationalism and yellow journalism are trying to portray Kashmir’s liberation struggle as run by an army of mercenary youth and activists.
“A big section of Indian media, particularly T.V news channels, have embarked on a malicious propaganda war to demonize Kashmiris and their sacred freedom struggle. This propaganda war is an effort to give legitimacy to Indian colonial control of Kashmir. Goebbels’s children and instruments of the Indian State want the people of India to believe that Kashmiri youth, students and resistance activists and leaders are mercenaries. The Indian media wants its people to believe that Kashmiris have sacrificed their lives, their eyes and limbs for a meager 500 rupee,” he said.
Commenting on the recent Sting Operation done by India Today Channel, Yasin Malik said that people involved in the operation will speak for themselves. However, the incident is being used to malign the whole resistance movement. “One person from the team involved in the Sting Operation had approached me saying that some Indian people wanted to give financial support to the Kashmiri resistance and for that they wanted to give me funds. I asked the person as to why would Indian people finance Kashmiri resistance? Hearing my response he left, never to return,” he said.