KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
Hurriyat Conference (m) on Friday said that it is “pity and extremely unfortunate” that for the past fifteen Fridays the government headed by a Muslim with 70% Muslim population in the state, is preventing hundreds of thousands of Muslims across the valley from offering mandatory congregational prayers at the historic and central Jamia Masjid in Srinagar and other main Masjids of the valley by enforcing curfew and strict restrictions using the police force “most of whom are Muslims themselves” to implement it.
“But the same government goes all out to ensure the smooth conduct and facilitation of the yearly Amarnath Yatra,” a statement issued by the Hurriyat Conference amalgam said this evening.
Expressing strong resentment over such “hypocrisy”, the Hurriyat Conference said, “disallowing people from offering Friday prayers and incarcerating Mirwaiz (Umar Farooq) of the state shows the scant respect or connect that the government has towards the religious sentiments of the Muslims of the state and how willing they are to make any compromise to stay in the powerless chair.”
“Not only the common people but Ulema, Imams, prominent citizens, scholars and intellectuals are deeply concerned over the continuous ban on offering prayers at Jamia Masjid, Srinagar and the continued arrest and solitary confinement the Mirwaiz, other resistance leaders and thousands and for condemn these actions of the puppet government,” Hurriyat Conference (m) observed.
APHC-m said that the use of brute force tear gas shelling and pellet firing on the protest marches across Shehr-e-Khaas on the call of the unified resistance leadership continued, while people raised slogans calling for the immediate release of the APHC-m Chairperson, other resistance leaders, activists and thousands of freedom-loving youth.
“Peaceful protests in Sopore, Haigam, Gandbard, Ganderbal, Pulwama and other places were once again quelled by use of brute force,” the APHC-m spokesperson added.
Expressing concern over nocturnal raids in Chattabal area of Srinagar and other places in Kashmir, the Hurriyat Conference conglomerate condemned the action of forces for detaining fathers when they fail to nab their sons.
Meanwhile, the incarcerated Hurriyat Conference (m) Chairperson, expressed grief over the death of people in motor accidents on both sides of the tunnel in Reasi, Rajouri and Kashmir valley, and conveyed his condolences to the affected families and prayed for the recovery of the injured.
