Srinagar: National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah Saturday expressed disappointment over a resolution passed in an all-party meeting in Delhi for not including in it an appeal to maintain calm in the wake of violence in Jammu and tension in other states over the Pulwama terror attack.
An all-party meeting, called by the government and attended by senior leaders of all major parties, passed a resolution condemning the terror attack and the support being given to it from across the border. Members of the opposition extended support to the government in tackling the challenge.
“Disappointed the resolution did not include a call for calm. Reports of violence in Jammu & tension in university/college campuses in some states, I would have expected an appeal for calm to have gone with the condemnation & condolences,” Omar Abdullah wrote on Twitter.
The winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir was rocked by massive anti-Pakistan protests during a general strike called by Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industries (JCCI) on Friday. People took to the streets to denounce the terror strike and also held candlelight rallies to pay tributes to the 40 CRPF personnel killed in it.
Nine people, including some policemen, were injured in stone-pelting incidents on Friday and a number of vehicle were torched and damaged. The curfew in Jammu city continued on Saturday and the Army staged flag marches in sensitive localities.
In Uttarakhand, some Kashmiri youths studying in the state capital of Dehradun have alleged that they were harassed and have been asked by their landlords to vacate accommodations fearing attacks on their properties in the aftermath of the deadliest attack on security forces in Kashmir.
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1. Citizens like me wish to know political agenda of Kashmir’s politicians and of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC). 2. If we wish that peace should return to the Kashmir valley, we should be ready to seek honest answers to following questions: (a) who is responsible for violence in the Kashmir valley? (b) Who is responsible for worsening situation in Kashmir? (c) Would accord of azadi to Kashmir end violence and bring peace in the valley? 2. I think our political leadership and more particularly, former chief ministers of Jammu & Kashmir, Ms Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah should be very clear as regards ground realities with reference to the Kashmir issue. Realities are: (a) Pakistan’s army and its intelligent wing ISI will continue to give logistics, equipment and financial support to terror groups like LeT, JeM, and Pakistani Taliban and allow these terror groups to operate freely from Pakistan. (b) Terror outfits based in Pakistan would continue to be freely used to create disturbances in the Kashmir valley and possible in other parts of India. 3. Then the question is this: how do we deal with the terror groups? If we have to make sustainable efforts to minimize impact of activities of terror groups, we need cooperation from ordinary people of Kashmir valley as also from two main political parties of J & K, Ms Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP and Omar Abdullah’s National Conference. 4. Considering this scenario, I believe that it is for separatists & people to decide what they wish to do: To wholeheartedly support our Army to so that terrorism is wiped out from Kashmir or to join those who provide support to terrorists and get killed at the hands of terrorists and terrorists’ supports.
His party and PDP are to be blamed for feulling ant-India feelings and keeping the separatism alive in Kashmir. He is talking about calm as if Indian blood is cheap so we should let Pakistan bleed us and he keeps giving sermon for peace. His party didn’t even give Kashmiri women right to property if they marry a non-Kashmiri. And here he is talking big. Modi is right in creating a new political class in J&K. We need to scrap article 370 as soon as possible. It is a temporary provision in our constitution. Only then we can stop politician like him from fueling anti-India feelings.