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| Wake Up to Kashmir tragedy: Mufti to New Delhi | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, August 4:
Peoples Democratic Party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has said a bleeding Kashmir has become a black spot on the country’s name and called for urgent and purposeful steps to redeem the worsening situation.
In a statement issued here today Mufti said the present situation is a result of a long drift and a contemptuous neglect of proud people with a distinct cultural and intellectual identity.
Mufti said the present situation in the state did not arise overnight and the youth of Kashmir were not para-dropped on the streets to raise slogans and stage protests. “I feel this is the direct result of a callous attitude of apathy towards the basic political urges and aspirations of the people, unabated human rights violations and a heartless response to them apart from inept administrative handling’, he said.
PDP patron said it is sad that the Government of India seems to have run out of ideas and thinking capabilities at the Centre seem to have reached a dead end. “In a situation about which I and my party had been cautioning constantly and pleading for a non-military approach, unfortunately the authorities are taking recourse to more force rather than reducing the dependence of the state on its military might,” he said and added that it is sad that Gandhi’s India should have only the gun and the soldier as its contact point with a self respecting and dignified people, who find themselves fighting a war of survival and identity.
Mufti said it was paradoxical that while all sane counsel of political action over the last few years had been ignored when the anger exploded into a volcano, it was sought to be attributed to unidentified ghosts, manipulation, money and vested interest. This he said is an affront which no self respecting people, especially a generation that is increasingly conscious of its democratic rights, could take without protests.
Mufti said the inept and rather juvenile handling of a sensitive state like Kashmir has now set the people here in direct clash with rest of the country and shooting down unarmed protestors is no way to get out of this quagmire. “Such high-handed measures would only fuel rage and alienation,” he said and added that the democratic polity of India must respond to this challenge before the political and humanitarian crisis in Kashmir degenerates into a catastrophe.
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