{"id":269,"date":"2014-03-20T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/dont-look-at-crimeas-freedom-soz-tells-separatists\/"},"modified":"2014-03-20T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T15:26:00","slug":"dont-look-at-crimeas-freedom-soz-tells-separatists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t look at Crimea\u2019s freedom: Soz tells Separatists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Srinagar:<\/b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> Commenting over the Crimea\u2019s freedom from Ukraine and the statements of pro-freedom groups relating the same with Kashmir issue, state Congress chief Saif-ud-din soz&nbsp;Thursdaystated that Crimea\u2019s freedom will never help Kashmir\u2019s separatists.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/machchil-encounter-congress-welcomes-court-martial-proceedings_261213054849.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/machchil-encounter-congress-welcomes-court-martial-proceedings_261213054849.jpg\" height=\"239\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">I can tell you that Crimea\u2019s is a different situation and the same is never going to help Kashmir\u2019s separatist leaders, Soz told KNS over phone.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The state Congress chief observed further that there is nothing new in the series of statements being issued by the separatists over Crimea\u2019s freedom here and that the leaders every time have been taking advantage from the International situations. \u201cThey find it conducive to their demands. Never have they been benefitted from such hypothetically favorable situations,\u201d Soz maintained.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Pertinently, several separatist parties including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq welcomed Crimea\u2019s freedom from Ukraine-stating, \u201cNew Delhi must learn a lesson from Crimea and shun its stubborn approach and allow the people of Kashmir to decide their fate. We should be given our birth right to choose our future the way Crimea did.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Huriyat Conference (G) Chairman Syed Ali Geelani had stated that it has proven that no region of the world can forcibly be kept against the will of its people by any other country for long and the choice and will of the people can\u2019t be changed by force.&nbsp;(KNS)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Commenting over the Crimea\u2019s freedom from Ukraine and the statements of pro-freedom groups relating the same with Kashmir issue, state Congress chief Saif-ud-din soz&nbsp;Thursdaystated that Crimea\u2019s freedom will never help Kashmir\u2019s separatists. I can tell you that Crimea\u2019s is a different situation and the same is never going to help Kashmir\u2019s separatist leaders, Soz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}