“The jehadi leadership is not against talks, but is firmly of the opinion that only a tripartite process can yield an acceptable solution to the Kashmir issue,” the UJC chief said.
In an interview to the KNS, Salahuddin termed the prime minister’s and the union home minister’s references to “good governance” as “hypocrisy of the central government,” saying that people should understand the conflict between the word and deed of the center.
“By beating the drums of progress and development, the Indian leadership actually wants to derail the 62-year-old struggle in the state. The separatist leadership must understand how corrupted the intentions of the Indian leadership are,” he said.
“The four to five lakh people who have laid down their lives in Kashmir so far cannot be sacrificed for economic packages and good governance,” he said.
“There will be no improvement in the situation at the ground level unless real efforts are made to resolve the Kashmir issue,” he said.
“By constructing tunnels, roads and other projects, the central government is trying to make its occupation ever stronger by deception,” he said.
Salahuddin said that barring youth in the Muslim-dominated areas of the state from jobs and professional and administrative affairs was “dangerous.”
“Kashmiri Muslims are gradually being eased out of administrative affairs, and people from non-Muslim areas are being inducted in large numbers in order to suppress Kashmiris,’ he said.
“The natural resources of Kashmir are being plundered by smuggling power and timber worth billions out of the state, and this needs to be understood,” he said.
Reacting in surprise to the union minister for home’s statements during his Kashmir visit, Salahuddin said: “I want ask the tolerance-preaching P Chidambaram why have the Hindus involved in the 37,000 organized and planned anti-Muslim riots in India since 1947 not been punished?”
“Muslims are still being put to the sword in Gujarat, Aligarh and other parts of India, and the home minister is totally unmoved,” he said.
“Kashmiri Muslims are an example in mutual harmony for centuries, and are proud not only to protect their Hindu brethren but also to share their joys and sorrows,” he said.
Referring to possible Hurriyat-Delhi talks, Syed Salahuddin said that the time had come for the Hurriyat factions to desist from mutual mud-slinging and showing each other down by allegations and counter allegations because the entire nation was affiliated to them.
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