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| Govt issues curfew passes strictly in accordance with Hurriyat calendar! | | Are separatists running administration in Kashmir? | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 1: As if the separatist leadership is running the state government that the administration is issuing curfew passes strictly in accordance with the protest calendar issued by the Hurriyat Conference.
Since the day when Kashmir erupted in protests in the wake of killing of militant commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani last month, the administration in Kashmir province is issuing curfew passes but exactly, as per the protest program of the separatist leadership.
If the previous protest calendar, as announced by the "united Hurriyat" comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik had given the five-day program upto July 31, various District Commissioners issued curfew passes for same period of validity.
Subsequently as the Hurriyat Conference announced a new protest program till August 5, the DCs have issued fresh curfew passes with 5-day validity from August 1.
While the Hurriyat is issuing protest program in piecemeal, the government issues curfew passes in piecemeal. Official sources said as many as six curfew passes were issued in the past month of the unrest, which has claimed over 50 lives while over 3000 lie wounded. But the issuance of curfew passes has irked the people, mostly government officials, doctors, and journalists who have to visit the offices of the concerned DCs again and again looking for curfew passes.
"I had to visit the office of DC Srinagar multiple times as the curfew passes are of very short validity… Can the administration not issue curfew passes of longer validity till situation improves or is it sheer red-tapism that we need to visit the concerned office begging for passes again and again," said a doctor, asking not to be identified.
People said their precious time goes waste in visiting the DC's office for curfew passes. "Why cannot the curfew passes be of longer validity," said Sameera Maqsood, who needs the pass for the marriage of her sister. "Curfew pass has become such a problem that we have almost decided to postpone the marriage. After years of hard work we had found a match but short-term curfew passes are hampering the marriage prospects now," said the family.
The police and civil administration in Kashmir is already under scanner for having failed to prevent breakdown of law and order in the Valley in the wake of Burhan's killing.
Security experts have told the union Home ministry that if situation could be prevented from taking ugly turn in 2013 when Parliament attack convict Muhammad Afzal Guru was hanged in Tihar jail on February 9, why the government failed to control the situation this time.
On July 30, Inspector General of Police Kashmir range SJM Geelani candidly admitted before media that the situation in restive Valley "continues to be the same" as it was on July 8, when protests erupted. "When the government formally admits that the situation is not improving why cannot be curfew passes be issued with some vision taking the ground reality into the consideration than the Hurriyat calendar," said a senior official in the administration. |
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