No funeral procession for Pakistan-backed terrorist Syed Ali Shah Geelani: How issues have modified since Burhan Wani’s encounter

Syed Ali Shah Geelani – a lifelong Islamic jihad sympathiser and facilitator died an inglorious demise on Wednesday night at his residence in Hyderpora, Srinagar. A professional-Pakistan apologist and a person who dreamt for the “freedom of Kashmir” from the Indian state, Geelani had a three-decade-long energetic profession in fomenting bother throughout the Kashmir valley and radicalising the youth to select up arms in opposition to the Indian state. Geelani was a Pakistani stooge, who peddled the ISI’s narrative on Kashmir and drove the valley’s youth to the trail of violence. With Geelani’s demise, a brand new daybreak has arrived for Kashmir valley.Geelani was a stalwart amongst Kashmir’s Islamists and secessionists in his personal proper. So, his funeral was anticipated to clock tons of of hundreds of individuals from throughout the valley. Islamists have been anticipated to throng Srinagar and create a large regulation and order scenario for the administration. The administration, nonetheless, has learnt to take care of secessionist retards with magnificence. So, the PM Modi-Amit Shah managed administration of Jammu and Kashmir ensured that Geelani’s sympathisers are given an early morning shock.Read extra: Modi authorities set to ban Hurriyat below UAPA chargesA Fresh DaybreakGeelani was buried at a graveyard close to his residence in Srinagar’s Hyderpora round 4.30 am on Thursday amid tight safety. Even journalists have been prevented from protecting the funeral and stopped from going to Hyderpora whereas restrictions have been imposed throughout Kashmir and the web and cell phone providers have been snapped. According to the Hindustan Times, safety forces have been deployed throughout Kashmir and all of the roads main in direction of Hyderpora are sealed. The police allowed solely a restricted variety of his family members to attend the funeral.Even as separatist chief Geelani’s acolytes/aides have been drumming up assist over his demise in opposition to Indian safety forces, Kashmir Police in early hours of Thursday foiled their plan to carry any processionThats been the hallmark of joint effort of @JmuKmrPolice, Army & CRPF pic.twitter.com/4kc1CS4bI4— Rohan Dua (@rohanduaT02) September 2, 2021Geelani vs Wani – A Tale of Two Funerals Needless to say, Syed Ali Shah Geelani didn’t get the grand funeral he would have hoped for, because of the pre-emptive measures taken by the J&Okay administration to forestall a breakdown of regulation and order. As a matter of reality, the final grand funeral in Kashmir, of a terrorist, was that of Burhan Wani in 2016. Lakhs descended in Kashmir’s Tral for Wani’s funeral, and what was witnessed subsequently was a unadorned present of radicalism, extremism and separatism. Stone pelting turned an “in trend” for Kashmir after the funeral of Burhan Wani. Kashmir’s Islamists started getting fascinated with the thought of giving rise to their very own model of intifada in opposition to the Indian state.The authorities of Kashmir was merely not ready to deal with a breakdown of regulation and order of that magnitude, again then. Now, nonetheless, it’s properly ready and closely geared up to take care of all contingencies. It has learnt from its errors. It has grown sensible. So, within the case of Geelani, the administration didn’t enable Kashmiris even the prospect to assemble to create ruckus within the valley.In June 2020, Geelani wrote a two-page resignation letter stepping down because the Hurriyat Conference’s lifetime chairman. This adopted months of reprimanding from Pakistan over his incapability to stir protest actions within the Kashmir Valley after the Narendra Modi authorities abrogated Article 370 in 2019. The actuality is that Geelani died a failure. The Modi authorities has crushed separatists like him, they usually merely don’t have any affect any longer. Sure, they could have sympathy, however their wings have been clipped and their fingers have been tied.Kashmir won’t ever be a boiling pot of secessionism prefer it was in 2016, or talking extra leniently, till the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019. Secessionists have been proven their place, and the Hurriyat Conference has been decreased to a non-entity in Kashmir.