Expressing serious concern over the situation in Kashmir, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti today said nothing was expected of the government in view of the assertions of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the wake of the recent killings.
“The situation in the state, especially in the Valley, is a cause of concern. Though collective conscience is satisfied in a matter of seconds, collective punishment is continuing unabated,” she said during a press conference at the Muftis’ Gupkar residence.
Accompanied by MLAs Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Rafi Ahmad Mir and Abdul Haq Khan, Mehbooba said restrictions and harassment of the youth were rampant in the Valley. She added that the party was not expecting anything from the coalition government as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had himself said he was helpless.
Mehbooba pointed out that over 1,000 youth had been arrested and some of them released and rearrested after Afzal Guru’s hanging. She alleged that NC agents were “acting as informers … to make money”. She claimed, “It (arrests) has become a commercial activity for the ruling party.”
“The government is ruling through the barrel of a gun,” she alleged. Most party MLAs were camping in their constituencies at present after the boycott of the ongoing Budget session of the Assembly.
“This repression has already pushed young boys to pick up arms again. Even the latest arrest of Liyaqat Shah in New Delhi indicates that the industry to involve the Kashmiri youth for rewards and medals is thriving. The Kashmiri youth have become fodder for Congress-BJP electoral politics,” Mehbooba said.
She added that jails had been filled again and leaders like Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Mohammad Yaseen Malik, Shabir Ahmed Shah and Nayeem Ahmed Khan, besides scores of others, had been arrested or put under house arrest.
On reports of using pepper guns against protesters, Mehbooba said it was banned even in war. At least three persons had been documented by human rights organisations to have died of pepper gas, she said. She added they were identified as Abdul Rashid Sheikh, Mohammad Yousuf Sofi and Hajra, a woman, all from Srinagar.
The failure of the rehabilitation policy for militants who wanted to live a normal life had turned it into another slogan, she claimed. The PDP president urged the government to come out with details of the youth who had applied for permission to return.
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