Pakistan-based Hurriyat faction on life-support in Kashmir Fri, May 21 2021 19:42 IST | 0 Views 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 the embodiments of quintessential Kashmiri values-Kashmiriyat, Insaniyat and Jamhuriyat, While Kashmiriyat stood for inclusivity and peaceful co-existence especially with Hindu Kashmir pandits, Insaniyat spotlighted a mindset based on universal human values. Jamhuriyat, in turn, illuminated the path to good governance.