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Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 17: Convinced that the coalition government of Mehbooba Mufti will not allow vested interests in media to further vitiate the atmosphere in the already volatile Valley, anti-India elements in and outside J&K have started using Pakistani media to play nefarious games in the Valley. One such element is none other than Mumbai-based and pro-separatist AG Noorani. He has used dawn.com to play dirty games in Kashmir. He has written a nasty article in dawn.comand his objective obviously is to defame Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and lower her position in the eyes of Kashmiri Muslims. Interestingly, he has spared NC working president and Leader of Opposition in Legislative Assembly Omar Abdullah, notwithstanding the fact that the latter tried his level best to create more troubles for the Chief Minister through his highly controversial tweets. Omar Abdullah had described the slain terrorist Burhan Wani as an "icon" and also said there would be more Burhans who could pick up gun.
Criticizing Mehbooba Mufti wrote thus: "Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's PDP base is south Kashmir where Burhan Wani was born and buried. She was conspicuous by her absence while her people were plunged in grief and anger, and did not deign even to visit the injured at the hospitals. Nor did any of her MLAs. Nor did Omar Abdullah. On July 11, she issued a desperate appeal for help to political leaders, businessmen, religious heads to "rise to the occasion" and help the government to restore peace. The Hurriyat leaders were left out. However, on July 10, a minister and official spokesman Naeem Akhtar appealed to "the mainstream political parties" and "also to those who are not in the mainstream and are really concerned about these killings … they should support us". This, to Hurriyat leaders who have been kept under house arrest for months on end. Asked about the scale of protests he cynically said: 'The rage is because of perception, romance'. On the use of pellet guns, he said: 'We disapprove of it.…But we will have to persist with this necessary evil till we can find a non-lethal' alternative".
He also accused the Mehbooba Mufti Government of using excessive force against protestors. "It is woefully clear that hugely excessive force was used against a people in grief. This calls for an impartial probe which neither the Modi nor the Mehbooba regimes will institute. Citizens' inquiries have a fine tradition in the subcontinent. The truth must be told".
Noorani didn't just stop there. He further wrote: "A reporter googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1465465949855-0'); }); reported from Srinagar on July 11 that all 72 beds in the ophthalmology ward of that hospital were occupied; some by two patients each. They were mostly young, many of them minors, including a 12-year-old. Dr Khanday told him: 'We have already operated on 92 patients. Every hour, more young men arrive with pellet injuries to the eyes'. Policemen in plainclothes infest the hospitals to record the patients' antecedents "even before we can examine them". Doctors said that the use of pellet guns is "unprecedented". One said "We have never seen anything of this magnitude. Every one who came here has pellet wounds above the chest'. A senior doctor at the SMHS, the leading hospital, said, 'The objective definitely seems to kill or maim the person for life" Where else has this happened?"
Noorani, like before, opposed the PDP's alliance with the BJP, and wrote thus: "The PDP was formerly soft on the separatists and ostensibly stood for Kashmiri's rights. It turned its back on that with its sordid pact with the BJP. Who will stand up to the centre over wrongs done to Kashmir if its own government is a tool of the centre?". He added: "Militancy can be quelled by two factors; one is New Delhi's conciliation with the people; the other is dialogue with Pakistan. The Modi government has nothing to offer to Srinagar or to Islamabad. Talk of dialogue is fine. But has New Delhi anything to offer to either as a compromise?" "More such outrages will occur unless the truth about Kashmir is squarely faced. Its people sympathize with the wielders of the gun because without them, the people feel, no one will listen to them. Sri Lanka's Tamils felt the same way about the Tamil Tigers," he further wrote.
As for the so-called Kashmir dispute, Noorani said: "The Kashmir dispute cries out for a solution on both dimensions - internal and external. For a people alienated and wronged for decades, any provocation will set them aflame. The Kashmir dispute will not vanish unless their aspirations are met", and warned that the situation in the Valley would further deteriorate in case the government of Mehbooba Mufti failed to cure the ailment. "Within Kashmir the situation will only deteriorate. Mehbooba Mufti has demonstrated both unfitness to be chief minister and lack of empathy for the people; as did Omar Abdullah. The youth do not abide by any leader's command. The people are desperate. The centre and its tool the BJP-PDP regime has no sympathy for them. What will emerge from such a situation?," he wrote in this regard.
What he wrote must expose him and his ill-intentions. Now that Mehbooba Mufti both as Chief Minister and Home Minister has acted against the undesirables in the Indian media, it is also time for her government to ensure that no foreign media was able to play any mischief. It's must.
In the meantime, Pakistan on Sunday decided to observe "black day" on July 20 instead ofJuly 19. A today's report in the Dawn said: "Pakistan will observe black day on July 20 instead ofJuly 19, as July 19 is observed every year in renewal of the resolution of J&K Muslim Conference in POJK. |
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