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| After ruining tourist season, separatists out to spoil Eid celebrations | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 7: Separatists issuing a yet another protest calendar and calling for UN chalo on Eid-day has left the people in Kashmir high and dry.
Sources told Early Times miscreants backed by separatists are threatening shopkeepers and traders not to make any preparations for the forthcoming Eid-ul-Adha, likely to be observed on September 13next week. "Miscreants have threatened the bakery shop owners, mutton and chicken sellers not to sell these items before the Eid festival," sources said, adding that shopkeepers have been threatened of dire consequences if they dare to defy the diktat.
A businessman, who wished not to be named, said, "I don't know where are we heading towards by choosing a suicidal path and which Azadi we want to achieve by stopping our people from venturing outside their houses and preventing them from celebrating Eid-festival."
He said that there are very few sacrificial goats visible in the market as people are lamenting that they don't have money to make purchases as whatever savings they had have vanished during the past two months. "I think this is for the first time in history of Kashmir that authorities would be forced to impose curfew and restrictions in Kashmir on the Eid day to prevent people from moving towards the office of United Nations office in Srinagar," the businessman added.
The Kashmir based spokesman of Bharatiya Janata Party Khalid Jehangir while talking to Early Times said, "Separatists are befooling people by selling dreams to them and are creating a notion that Azadi would come by observing shutdown and strikes. They (separatists) have ruined Kashmir and its economy. For the past two months people have been locked inside their homes and every week fresh protest calendar is being issued asking people to observe shutdown and hit the streets. This has been continuing for the past 2-months. Despite authorities lifting the curfew the henchmen of separatists are not allowing people to open their shops nor are they allowing public transport to ply. It's really unfortunate."
A Kashmir watcher said, "It's high time for the government to act and help the people to come out of the mess. A few miscreants threatening shopkeepers not allowing vehicles to move on roads is nothing but an anarchy which needs to be addressed at any cost. Political parties should cut across the party lines and should ask the government to give free hand to security forces to act against the miscreants and so-called Azadi seekers."
He said, "People are scared to come out of their homes to the fear of stone-pelters and miscreants , who leave no chance to humiliate and intimidate people who defy the hartal calendar. There are even reports that militants are pressurizing people to join rallies and protests." |
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