Kaiser’s cousin questions Hurriyat’s stance in a video

: A video went viral on social media in which a youth is questioning the stance of Hurriyat Conference, particularly hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani.

The video has been shot at Kaiser Amin’s house, a 21-year-old man who lost his life after he was hit by a CRPF vehicle during a stone pelting incident at Nawhatta on Friday. Many people visited the family for offering condolences on Sunday.

The young man is aghast over the statement of Geelani for calling the daughter of another separatist leader Shabir Shah as role model for youth of Kashmir.

“A statement is issued by Geelani sahab that Sama Shabir is a role model, who studies in Delhi Public School in Srinagar. Once I would be ready to sacrifice my life for Geelani sahab, he used to say that you should not send your children to Christian missionary schools. The same Geelani sahab says that I congratulate (Sama) and she is role model for youth and students. While Kaiser’s sisters still don’t know what is martyrdom,” he said in a minute-long video clip. Sama Shabir Shah, daughter of senior separatist leader Shabir Shah jailed in Tihar, scored 97.8% in the recently announced CBSE Class-12 results and topped the state.

After the results, Geelani had termed Sama Shabir as a role model for student generation of Kashmir.

The veteran leader had saluted the courage and steadfastness of Sama Shabir who against all odds and his father’s absence topped the state in CBSE Class-12 results.

The young man was also angry with Hurriyat leaders for deviating away from Nizam-e-Mustafa (system based on Islam). “And you will establish Nizam-e-Mustafa (state based on Islam)? A dead who should be buried within an hour, you kept him on road for display. It never was Nizam-eMustafa. Never did prophet made anybody wait to bury their dead. So that your so called leaders…Those children who come to you, what else do they do except sloganeering. Give us answers what leadership is doing. Lakhs of people fear Hurriyat now,” he said.

A man who was present during the youth’s monologue said that the youth was not anti-Hurriyat but was rather questioning their policies. “He spoke about five minutes and the video clip is just a minute long,” the man said.

In a video interview to a local news portal on Monday evening, the young man, who introduced himself as a cousin of Kaiser Amin, said that he has been quoted out of context by media by taking out a small clip from a long conversation.

“A Hurriyat delegation had come to offer condolences and I was talking to them. I had become a bit emotional. Hurriyat is like a family and I have always believed that they represent the Kashmir cause,” he said. “And if somebody has grievances with his family whom should he ask; his family. So I was asking my family.”