Heading Armed Struggle only means to achieve independence: Syed Saluhudin

MUZAFFARABAD, July 25 : United Jihad Council chairman and Hizbul Mujahideen ‘supreme commander’ Syed Salahuddin said on Saturday that those calling for settlement of the Kashmir issue through peaceful means were in fact deceiving the innocent Kashmiris, adding that an armed struggle was the only way to resolve the dispute.
Addressing a press conference, he said that experience of the past 65 years should convince anyone that only a strong and target-oriented armed struggle across held Kashmir could win freedom from Indian occupation.
“The Kashmiri people, leadership and the state of Pakistan should prepare themselves for it. Otherwise freedom will remain a distant dream,” he said.
The press conference was held at the end of a procession staged by the supporters of Hizbul Mujahideen to mark the ‘right to self- determination day’.
The UJC leader said he supported political movement but was opposed to what he called a fragmented and fractured political struggle. He claimed that about 150 rounds of talks with India had failed to
Produce anything. He said it was the armed struggle that had forced foreign troops to leave Vietnam, Algeria, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq and once again it was compelling the US and allies to withdraw from Afghanistan.