Srinagar: Expressing serious resentment over the statement of BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqwi in which he had said that Kashmiri separatists’ dream of creating a new country within India will never get fulfilled, the Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir (HCJK) leader Shabir Ahmad Shah said that Kashmir had never been a part of India, which, by landing its troops in Kashmir in 1947 occupied it forcibly and illegally.
In his reply to BJP vice-president, Shah in a statement issued to KNS said the statement of Mr. Naqwi in which he talked about a single country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari is bereft of any historical reality and is a hallucination of Indian imperialist elements.
“If the statement of Mukhtar Abbas Naqwi is factually correct, then why is Kashmir granted a special status under Article 370 to keep on with their national identity within the union of India,” Shah questioned, adding that we want complete freedom from the union of India. The veteran resistance leader Shabir Ahmad Shah made it clear that Kashmir was neither part of India nor will it ever be. “India is ruling Kashmir with its military might. History is testimony to this fact that forcible rule has to get perished one day or other and Kashmiris will continue their freedom struggle against Indian occupation till they get their birth right of self-determination,” Shah added.