SRINAGAR: All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chairman Syed Ali Geelani strongly reacting to the imposition of ban on internet services in the territory for a period of one month has said that the puppet authorities are pushing the people to stone age.
In a statement issued in Srinagar he said that ban on internet was one more act of state terrorism and another ploy to cover up the atrocities of Indian forces in occupied Kashmir. “There is no justification to deny access to social media and it tantamount to denial of fundamental rights,” he said.
Geelani ridiculed the puppet authorities for their lame excuse wherein they attributed the prevailing volatile situation with social media and said that instead of addressing the basic cause of political uncertainty in the occupied territory they were entangled with issues of no importance and off-shoots arising out of that.
He said that deteriorating situations were there since Indian forces occupied Jammu and Kashmir and for last 70 years Kashmiri people were yearning for their right to freedom. It is a lame excuse to attribute present situation with social media, he said. “How come ban on internet will bring peace to Kashmir? It won’t help you and the only option left is to ascertain the people’s aspiration and these patchworks, cosmetic approach and restricting access to social media will prove counterproductive,” he added.
Geelani said that in the recent past there were no networking sites but still the occupied territory was on boil because of denying basic rights and for political uncertainty. He condemned the high handedness of Indian forces and said that after thrashing students and using youth as human shield, the forces’ personnel uploaded these video clips on social media. “The Indian forces are creating all the mess and they need to be restricted and held responsible for creating chaos,” he said.
Syed Ali Geelani appealed to the international human rights organizations to take cognizance of the ban on social media in the occupied territory.
