Pakistan-based Hurriyat faction on life-support in Kashmir
Fri, May 21 2021 19:42 IST |
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Pakistan-based Hurriyat faction on life-support in Kashmir. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 21: The Pakistan-based faction of the Hurriyat conference is set to launch a Kashmir-centric campaign to promote a separatist narrative on Kashmir, by falsely pivoting the May 21 gunning down of Mirwaiz Moulvi Farooq and Abdul Ghani Lone as turning points of a Kashmiri secessionist movement.
The cynical use of the two as symbols of separatism is both counter-factual and farcical.
But the Hizbul Mujahideen under instructions from Pakistan s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) had to kill both these leaders-Mirwaiz Farooq on this day in1990 and Lone 12 years later, for exactly the opposite reasons. Their target, in the end, was not only the two iconic leaders, but Kashmir s mainstream ideology. Far from supporting secession, the two tall leaders of Kashmir-Mirwaiz and Lone were