Geelani shocker for Hina
- Separatist extends self-determination call to cover ***
.......The spearhead of Kashmiri secession, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, left Khar and her delegates a little stumped by demanding, for the first time, that the self-determination exercise should include areas under ***************** Kashmir (***) as well.
Initially a champion of “complete and irrevocable” merger with Pakistan, Geelani quietly changed tack a few years ago and began advocating the right to self-determination for the Valley. ......
Geelani aggressively espoused a cross-communal Kashmiri case rather than merely a Valley-Muslim cause, which he has often done in the past. “What I want is for all people who belong to undivided Kashmir, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Dogras, Pahadis, all of them,” Geelani said. “They must all be allowed to decide their future destiny and where they want Kashmir to be. I have always spoken for all sections and I continue to do so, it is propaganda that I only speak for a particular section, I speak for Kashmiris.”
Such articulation sits ill with the Pakistani outlook on the Kashmir dispute whose central idea is Islam. .....
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