KL Report
SRINAGAR
Reacting over the stir caused due to the waiving of Pak flags again in a rally at Tral on Friday, Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Geelani Saturday declared that waiving Pak flags is no crime “as people here love Pakistan.”
“The sentiment for Pakistan in Kashmir is alive. Youth generally express their love for the country by waiving Pak flags. You can even fund it when the Pak cricket team plays the game. You can generally find the pro-Pak sentiment during a pro-freedom rally and we can say this with all certainty that waiving Pak flags in no way is a crime,” Huriyat (G) spokesman Ayaz Akbar told KNS.
However, he was quick to add that the amalgam itself didn’t waive the Pak flags at the party level but youth present in the rally did. “We have our own flags of Tehreek-e- Huriyat. We at party level didn’t waive Pak flags but at the same time you cannot stop youth from showing their love towards any particular country- It is a sentiment which dominates here,” Akbar said.
Training guns at New Delhi based news channels, he said, “The media in deliberate attempt is giving the hype to certain events in a most planned manner. Otherwise Pak flags in Kashmir are nothing new. People have been waiving this flag since 1947.”
Former chief minister Omar Abdullah on Friday hit out at the BJP, an ally of the ruling PDP in Jammu and Kashmir, for maintaining silence. “Imagine what @BJP4India would have said if as CM I’d been sitting in Bombay (Mumbai) surrounded by movie stars while Pak flags are waved in Kashmir,” Abdullah wrote on Twitter.
Pakistani flags were waved by supporters of Kashmiri separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani at a rally that he addressed today in Tral, south Kashmir, after Friday prayers.
Addressing a press conference on Saturday, the chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said that Geelani is desperate for attention and his government will take action against raising of Pakistani flag at his rally.“Law will take its own course,” he said.
Reacting to Mufti’s remark, Geealni’s amalgam in a counter attack said: “He (Mufti) has surrendered before Nagpur. We can understand his compulsions,” Akbar said.
