Hurriyat (G) flays authorities for disallowing Geelani to visit Urdu book fair at KU

Hurriyat Conference (G) has flayed the authorities for not allowing its chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani to visit Urdu Book fair at University of Kashmir here.

Geelani was invited by the students of Kashmir University togive talk on Urdu language.

   

“Scheduled to visit Urdu Book fair in University of Kashmir,Syed Ali Geelani was not allowed to step out of his residence today at 10:00am. His Hyderpora office-cum-residence, which has been converted into jail forthe last one decade, was cordoned off by extra police force to prevent him fromattending this purely academic activity,” a spokesman of the Hurriyat, in astatement today, said.

“I was going to meet my beloved youth, interact and spendsome time with them and it was a peaceful and apolitical event, but not onlyour political and religious, but academic and educational activities too arecurbed and forcibly stopped with the barrel of gun,” the spokesman quotedGeelani, as having said while condemning the move.

“The youth particularly students would have been waiting inthe lawns of the University and I too was eager and enthusiastic to be amongthem after a very long gap,” he said.

Expressing his serious concern over the”extinction” of Urdu, Hurriyat (G) chairman said, “Most of ourliterature is in Urdu particularly in this sub-continent and our carelessnessand non-seriousness about it will deprive not only us but our cominggenerations of the valuable and literary treasure of our faith and culture.”

He requested students, researchers, teachers andeducationists to come forward to safeguard this language and oppose tooth andnail any “mischief to suppress it.”

Congratulating the organisers and participants the bookfair, Geelani said, “These people have traveled from far off places to thisstrife torn land and have camped for the last one week to promote Urdu. Weacknowledge their sincere efforts for this sweet language.”

He appealed to the students, scholars and buddingacademicians to get to the zenith of knowledge and analysis as, according tohim, they need to concentrate on their education, research and work hard. “Theyalso need to remain connected to their roots as well,” he added.

“We need to be equipped with the latest technology in everyfield to face the present day challenges,” Geelani said.

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