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| ‘Kashmir in the words of CM Mehbooba’ | | News Analysis | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 1: One may or may not endorse the PDP's self-rule doctrine. For, it is debatable as the opinion in J&K is highly divided. Similarly, one may or may not agree with the PDP suggestion that there is an issue in the minds of the people of Kashmir. For, this suggestion is also debatable. For, J&K State consists of three distinct regions, and not just Kashmir.
The perfect peace in Jammu and Ladakh establishes that the state is not one organic political unit and that there are issues on which the opinion in the state is highly divided. However, one just can't afford to overlook what Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said about the situation in Kashmir. Her’s was an highly object account of the prevailing situation in the Valley, which must move each and everyone in the larger interest of Kashmir, other parts of the state and the nation as a whole as well.
What the emotional but candid Chief Minister said while reflecting on what had been happening in Kashmir in the aftermath of the killing of Hizb Commander Burhan Wani on July 8? She said: "Our enterprising young boys and girls are not able to apply for KAS examination, they are not able to avail themselves of the Prime Minister's Special Scholarship Scheme, the educational and training institutions are shut, the tourism sector has taken a big hit, the development process has come to a standstill and the socio-economic condition of the people is deteriorating day by day because of the prevailing law and order situation. Instead of asking the youth to focus on education, they are being incited to take stones in their hands and attack whosoever comes their way, she said. A 70-year-old poor street vendor who moves out of his home in the morning to earn bread and butter for his starving family is being slapped by a 10-year old boy, young girls are being threatened that they will be torched alive along with their scooties if they move out of their homes, people wearing decent clothes are being intimidated, respectable citizens are being humiliated and unsuspecting travellers are being pillaged in the name of protests. Such hideous activities are not only unacceptable but unbecoming of a civilised society".
She didn't stop just there. She further said: "They are attacking police stations, camps, court complexes, Government offices and buildings and destroying everything. This is nothing but the loss of public and the State Government. We will have to reconstruct it again, which will need lot of resources and time. The people must ponder over how the educational, economic and social structure of Kashmir was being systematically ruined because of the prevailing situation".
Everyone in the state and outside knew that the situation in the Valley was horrible, but it is difficult to believe that the people outside the Valley or even with the Valley, knew the accurate picture of facts as Mehbooba Mufti revealed on Sunday while visiting various examination centres where CET was conducted on Sunday.
It would be a crime against humanity if what she said is ignored by those who are playing with lives and careers of the people and the youth and for nothing. Those who are indulging in such ghastly activities are only converting Kashmir from paradise into a veritable hell. It is the duty of the people of Kashmir to isolate and punish Geelani and the ilk, who mint money by playing to the Pakistani tunes. Mehbooba Mufti remark that those whose children were studying outside the state and in foreign countries were instigating the Kashmiri youth to indulge in violent activities, who are being killed or injured in the process, must make the common Kashmiris to rise in revolt the Pakistani agents in their own interest and interest of the children. Any filure on their part to do so would only bring more destruction in terms of men and material. |
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