Srinagar
The Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) Chairman Haji Muhammad Yasin Khan said the hearing on the case on the sensitive as 35 A has heightened tensions in the trouble-torn region as the people are apprehensive of their fate.
Khan said any fiddling with the Article 35 A could trigger a catastrophe in the entire south Asian region than to talk of Kashmir alone.
He said revocation of Article 35 A will mean that people of all the three regions will lose their share of all resources in the state including jobs and land.
“People of this state will end up as being another Palestinians whose land will be taken away by outsiders. We all will lose our identity collective and individual,” he said.
“When Delhi should have been serious to take measures to improve situation through initiation of efforts for final settlement Kashmir in accordance with the aspirations of the people of the state, some hidden forces are hell-bent to keep Kashmir on the boil through such sinister petitions, while people are being pushed towards a decisive battle,” Khan who also heads the Kashmir Traders and Federation (KTMF) said.
Khan questioned that as to why all such petitions that aim to weaken the special status of Kashmir or to bring demographic changes in the Muslim dominated state in accordance with the Hindutva agenda were taking place largely for the last four years.
Khan said the timing of such cases look equally conspiring. “Instead of saying when to have a hearing on such a sensitive case, we appeal the honorable Court to dismiss the petition so that the wild fears in the minds of already victimized people of Jammu and Kashmir come to an end once for all,”said Khan in a statement.
Khan maintained that Kashmir Inc was not only speaking on behalf of the business community of the Valley alone but was making public the popular sentiment of the people of the state in general.
“Like other Kashmiris, we have always sacrificed for the cause of Kashmir and we won’t mind sacrificing everything if our existence is at stake,” he said.
He said it was faulty policies of the government which force the business community to speak on such issues when actually the businessmen should have been provided with a conducive environment to work.
The KEA chairman said that showing maturity the New Delhi should initiate measures to resolve Kashmir and also reciprocate to Imran Khan’s offer of dialogue on the core issue so that sustainable peace and prosperity in restored.
Supporting the stand of the JRL and the Kashmir’s civil society on the issue, the Kashmir Inc said it was a collective responsibility of every sane individual to be extra cautious.
