Srinagar: Hardline Hurriyat Conference, led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, on Thursday claimed that the Jammu and Kashmir government had earmarked land for rehabilitating migrant Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley and said it would oppose any such attempt to create "Israel-type settlements".
Hurriyat has always welcomed the return of Kashmiri Pandits and not a single Kashmiri Muslim was against their rehabilitation, a Hurriyat spokesman said here.
"But the Indian policy makers want to implement Israel-type plan which has been tried in Palestine. We will not allow it to happen," he said.
He said, "Our reliable sources in the Revenue Department informed that the Chief Minister has completed the basic formalities for providing land" and that his recent tour of south Kashmir was part of that plan.
"This is a plan to divide the people of Jammu and Kashmir on religious lines and to create Palestine-like situation in Kashmir on the pretext of rehabilitation of migrant Pandits. The people of Kashmir, including the Hindus, will resist this ploy with full might and will not allow it to succeed," he said.
The spokesman accused Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed of "cooperating" with the Centre in implementing the plan.
He said Hurriyat always doubted the statement by the Central government in Parliament earlier this month that there were no plans to create separate townships.
"Sayeed also tried his best to keep the people in dark on the issue and has changed his statements many times till now. This is a very dangerous ploy and the Hurriyat will not sit silent on the issue and will mobilise public opinion to foil the plan," he said.
