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| Enjoying vacations in New Delhi, separatists give strike calls for Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 9: Personally enjoying vacations in the warmth of New Delhi with their families, Kashmir's top separatist leaders including Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq want people of Kashmir to observe strike on the execution anniversaries of Muhammad Afzal Guru and Muhammad Maqbool Bhat on February 9 and 11.
While Mirwaiz, after holidaying in Goa, has reached Delhi to hold discussions with his Pakistani handlers, Geelani too has reached the national capital and plans to stay back there for over a month.
Sources said Geelani today visited Medanta hospital in the NCR for medical checkup and later left for his flat at posh Malviya Nagar in New Delhi. Sources said his family including son Nayeem, who is often seen as close to mainstream parties particularly PDP, told the aged leader that they would stay back in New Delhi for some time.
Sources said today when Kashmir was observing strike on call by separatists, his family visited malls for shopping.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on the other hand spend the day in the national capital visiting places of his choice and even enjoyed meals at some of the costly hotels. His other party leaders have also been enjoying vacations away from their homes in Kashmir.
Sources said the separatist leaders had been predicting tense situation in Kashmir during this week, when the execution anniversaries of Maqbool Bhat and Afzal Guru are observed. "It was only to personally avoid the tension that they tactfully left cold Kashmir for warmer regions," said a party insider. Mirwaiz who is often seen as close to Bharitiya Janta Party has been enjoying some good time in the national capital and was even allowed hassle-free visit to Pakistani embassy at Chanakya Puri where he held deliberations with the Pakistani High Commissioner and other diplomats. Insiders said in his cold war with arch rival Geelani, Mirwaiz wants Pakistan to make him more powerful in Kashmir than before.
Ironically sitting back in New Delhi and enjoying security from the BJP led government, Mirwaiz today condemned the detention of anther separatist leader and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik. Malik was placed under preventive custody yesterday.
Mirwaiz's condemnation, however, failed to impress the people of Kashmir who wrote on social media that "sitting in the cozy chambers of his masters in New Delhi", he was condemning arrest of his colleagues.
"If Mirwiaz and Geelani were so concerned about the strike call in Kashmir they should have stayed back but their leaving the Valley at this critical juncture suggests that they are noting but beneficiaries of Kashmir conflict," posted one Kashmiri businessman on the social media.
Meanwhile a police official said the strike call today didn't have "any big impact as was expected."
"The good sign today was that youth were playing cricket. May be this is because the old man (Geelani) is away and no one incited protests," the police official said. |
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