{"id":9857,"date":"2017-06-19T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T09:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=9857"},"modified":"2017-06-19T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T09:55:26","slug":"no-threat-amarnath-yatra-pilgrims-guests-geelani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=9857","title":{"rendered":"No threat to Amarnath yatra, pilgrims our guests: Geelani"},"content":{"rendered":"

Srinagar:<\/strong> Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani on Sunday termed the alleged \u201cterror threat\u201d to the upcoming Amarnath Yatra as a \u201ccalculated move aimed at maligning and discrediting the political struggle of Kashmiris.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI denounce misinformation campaign carried out by biased Indian media. People in Kashmir while continuing with the age-old tradition of providing best hospitality to pilgrims have always been friendly and generous to visitors and particularly to Amarnath pilgrims,\u201d Geelani said in a statement.<\/em><\/p>\n

Elaborating, he said that Amarnath yatra is being conducted for decades and the people here have treated the pilgrims with unique hospitality and received them as their guests.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, adverse propaganda has been launched by Indian media wherein they are propagating that Amarnath yatris are facing threat from people of the state. Terror threat to the upcoming Amarnath yatra is a blatant lie aimed at maligning the Kashmir movement,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cKashmiris are not against any religion or its followers. They are pursuing a legitimate struggle for their fundamental rights. People for the past seven decades are demanding right to self-determination to decide their political destiny,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cFanatical forces are desperate to give bad name to freedom movement and as such are relying on negative propaganda and following their fanatical dogma,\u201d Geelani said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Blaming \u201csectarian forces\u201d for \u201ccommunalizing the situation,\u201d Geelani said: \u201cIt is a deceit and a well-planned ploy to carry out their mysterious agenda against people in the state.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Strongly ridiculing \u201cIndian media,\u201d the APHC (G) chairman said: \u201cIndia is trying to mislead its people and international community by negative and baseless propaganda.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIndian media is working on the directions of the \u2018Zafrani\u2019 Brigade and their fanatical sponsors. These fanatical forces are relying on lame excuse and preparing ground for communal tension against Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir and as such are rhetorical about so-called threat warnings against Amarnath pilgrims,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople should make Amarnath pilgrims aware about the reality of the freedom struggle of Jammu and Kashmir while continuing with the age-old tradition of providing best hospitality to pilgrims. \u00a0Agencies, saffron brigade and India\u2019s biased media are providing misinformation round-the-clock about so-called threat situations in Kashmir and our freedom struggle,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNow they have launched a misinformation campaign saying that people in state have ill-intentions against pilgrimage and Yatris,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Referring to people\u2019s uprisings in 2008, 2010 and 2016, he said \u201cEven in those gloomy circumstances, people despite restrictions and curfew received these Yatris with open arms and provided shelter and food.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is our age-old tradition and in future we will follow this tradition with same spirit and receive these Yatris as our revered guests,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kashmir is a political issue, Geelani said, and stressed upon visitors to feel the pain and see the issue through the prism of humanity. \u00a0\u201cThe issue has nothing to do with extremism or fanaticism. There is no threat to Yatris. I urge them to present the real picture of our struggle before Indian people and aware them about the historical background of this dispute,\u201d Geelani said.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar: Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani on Sunday termed the alleged \u201cterror threat\u201d to the upcoming Amarnath Yatra as a \u201ccalculated move aimed at maligning and discrediting the political struggle of Kashmiris.\u201d \u201cI denounce misinformation campaign carried out by biased Indian media. People in Kashmir while continuing with the age-old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9857","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\/9857","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=9857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/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=9857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}