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| Mehbooba denounces collective punishment of people | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, July 20: Peoples' Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti has said that the people of Kashmir were being collectively punished in the worst draconian manner for raising voice against injustice.
In a statement issued here today she said the unabated and repressive crackdown on civilian population was degenerating into a severe blot on the humanity.
Denouncing the brazen targeting of youth by security forces Mehbooba said the incidents of Baramulla that resulted in the death of newly married Fayaz Ahmed Khanday and 10 year old Faizan Ahmed Buhroo are not only grave tragedies for the families but also an index of the mercilessness with which an entire population is being treated.
She said while like the other bereaved of current turmoil nothing can console families of Fayaz and Faizan they add to the black spots of a completely discredited and remote controlled system.
Mehbooba said for the second running month Kashmir is virtually imprisoned and people are suffering unprecedented miseries and nobody seems concerned about the grave crisis. The clueless state government having lost all moral, political and administrative authority has handed over the situation to trigger happy security forces and the union government is becoming shriller by the day in its idiom on Kashmir she said.
Mehbooba added that as a result of this virtual abandoning of duty towards the people an impression is gaining ground here that the valley was being looked at as an enemy territory, good enough only for a military response.
Mehbooba said it has been proved beyond doubt that the government has run out of ideas on governance. But with the loss of thinking faculty it seems to have lost heart as well, she added while referring to the curbs on the movement of people, lack of provisions and medical facilities. She said while for the outside world, galleries and media there is no curfew in Srinagar after the union home secretary announced its lifting on Me'raje Aalam, everybody in Kashmir is house arrested and a victim of the draconian methods employed to keep people imprisoned. "While there is no curfew officially in force in the capital or other towns, no movement is allowed amid continued advice to parents not to let their children out" she said calling it a mockery of commonsense. She said the people of the state have the right to express their feelings as much as in any other place and clearly they were being denied this fundamental right with full might of a brute force enjoying impunity. Senior party leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Beig, senior party leader Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari and MLA Basharat Bukhari have also condemned the continued killings of youth in the valley.
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