SRINAGAR: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today lashed out at Pakistan for instigating youths in Kashmir to take up arms, saying it has to change its policy, and asked the Centre to revoke AFSPA on trial basis from selected areas as a beginning towards “winning the hearts” of people.
“Today when a Kashmiri child takes up gun, they (Pakistan) call him leader and say he is doing good, but when their own children, some from madrassas etc take up gun, they attack them with drones and hang them in military courts.
“I feel Pakistan, which is viewed by people of Kashmir with sympathy, has this time committed excess.
“If they instigate our children to pick up gun and then say you will become our leader if you get killed in encounter, then I think they need to change this policy,” Mehbooba told reporters here.
The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister was speaking on a day she met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh who took stock of situation in the Valley where 47 people have died and over five thousand civilians and security personnel have been injured in clashes that followed the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. (AGENCIES)
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