Srinagar, Mar 16: Referring to the current situation, Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday said that Kashmir was used like a “laboratory” where all kinds of tactics are tried and tested to keep control.
Mirwaiz was addressing the Friday congregation at Jamia Masjid Srinagar after being released from house arrest.
“Whether it is promoting repression through daily killings of young boys or intimidation and fear by rape and murder of little girls to restrictions curbs and harassment to pressurising leadership and maligning them, all kinds of tactics are being tried and tested in the laboratory of Kashmir to continue the forcible control and avoid resolution,” he, as per Hurriyat (M) spokesman, said.
Mirwaiz, he added, said that the current situation is an extremely difficult and trying period for the people of J&K especially for those in the valley.
He said constantly new threats and challenges emerge for people as a “consequence of force and the unending status quo, to undermine our very existence”.
“It is the remarkable resilience and determination of the people and their daunting spirit that keeps us going on and not give up.”
He said that in such a difficult and testing time, people’s faith in Allah’s help and blessing becomes the “ultimate recourse and our faith in that recourse becomes our strength”.