Toronto: July 30 (KMS) Toronto based Kashmiri Liberation leader, Farooq Siddiqi has warned Indian fundamentalist forces to stop instigating the communal elements in Jammu region to conduct harmful activities against the Muslims of the occupied Kashmir.

The liberation leader in a statement in Toronto said that threatening Kashmiris with economic blockade was ridiculous and reflected the ignorance of Indian polity about Kashmiris resilience as a nation, its fertile lands and its enormous resources. We have in the past and we will in future self sustain our selves and even feed hundreds of thousands of foreign workers from India who come to Kashmir for earning livelihood, Farooq added.

He pointed out that Kashmiris have historically never been dependent on a supply line from Jammu and had always, for centuries had its trade through Rawalpindi Road, and Ladakh, which would eventually be restored, as our natural trade link with outside world.

Describing economic blockade suggested by the BJP as shooting one’s   own foot, Siddiqi said eight hundred thousand occupational forces in Kashmir were daily dependent on the supply line from Jammu and in the absence of this unnatural supply chain Indian occupational soldier would be a sitting duck.

The liberation leader said that the realities on the ground made freedom of Kashmir the only viable option for Kashmiri nation. He maintained that in the current politically indeterminate state and non- resolution of the Kashmir dispute, relations between the Kashmiri majority, which is Muslim, and the Kashmiri minority, which is mostly Hindus, must come to a final settlement before they reach a boiling point.

It is unfortunate.  Siddiqi said that with more than a century of integration of Jammu with Kashmir, the fundamentalist Hindu forces have not blend themselves in a social contract with Kashmiri Muslims of Valley or Muslim belt of Jammu. While Kashmiri ethos and its values of protecting minorities have no parallel in whole of the world, its magnanimity and tolerance must not be measured as its weakness, he added.