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| Govt out to break protest calender, separatists to face tough action | | Kashmir Unrest | | Hyderi Ali
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 8: In a major offensive to crush the ongoing agitation in restive Kashmir, the state government is all set to intensify crackdown on the Hurriyat leaders, who are under scanner of the Union Home Ministry.
While some of the already detained separatist leaders are likely to be shifted to be jails outside Jammu and Kashmir, others who are "still moving around", will be formally arrested.
The phone and internet connectivity, as availed by some Hurriyat office bearers, is also likely to be snapped in the coming days, so that the issuance of any new protest calendar is stopped.
If sources in the Union Home Ministry are to be believed, security cover as presently given to some of the separatist leaders is also to be reduced considerably.
Sources said the state government recently discussed this all threadbare at a high-level meeting here.
It was reliably learnt that the meeting discussed the shifting of the some senior separatist including Muhammad Yasin Malik and his Hurriyat-G colleague GM Sehrai, presently detained in the summer capital, to Tihar and elsewhere.
A former police official, close to the Peoples Democratic Party, who is "actively advising the government on how to counter the unrest by sharing his service experience", is also understood to be "seriously convinced" with the plan.
Sources said the government has resolved to prioritize the "crushing of the protest calendar with iron hands."
"Protest calendar which declined to show any relaxation even on the upcoming Eid Ul Azha when people needed a respite has emerged as a major concern for the government and it has been unanimously resolved that if calendar is stopped, the protests will subsequently stop," said an official in the civil administration, asking not to be named.
He said the divisional administration in Kashmir spoke to various sections of the society over restoration of normalcy and it was realized that the protests calendar is the major hindrance to overcome agitation which erupted in the Valley since July 8, when militant commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani and his associates were killed.
"Every section of the society including traders, transporters and school owners said they cannot resume business till protest calendar is issued," said the top official.
He said in wake of multiple inputs that the protest calendar needs to be stopped, Hurriyat would be talked accordingly.
"Basically this plan was already in place but we had been waiting for the result of the visit of all party delegation to Kashmir. Now that they too have told the calendar is sponsored by Pakistan, we are encouraged to act on the same lines more strongly," the official said. |
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