JAMMU: Lashing out at people who are responsible for unrest in the Kashmir valley, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today advocated for ‘innocent’ Kashmiris asserting that ‘apne to apne log hain.’
“Kashmiris are not like this (stone pelters). They are peace loving, they want to open their shops, they want to send their wards to school,” Ms Mufti said while addressing a gathering after inaugurating a multi-functional sewerage plant in Bhagwati Nagar area along Tawi river bank here this afternoon.
“I want to make an appeal to the Centre that do not see people of Kashmir with same eye,” she said, adding, “There are only 5 per cent of people, who are disturbing peace and instigating violence in the Valley, but 95 per cent are innocent and they want to live in peace but are suffering due to a section of selfish creatures.”
She said, “I appeal to Centre to take care of those 95 per cent people. ‘Apne to Apne Log Hain'(They (innocent) are our own people) and they are in problem.”
Without naming separatists and opposition parties including National Conference and Congress, Ms Mufti said, “There is a section of people, which is making all attempts to create disturbance in the valley and this shows that they do not represent the State.”
People of Kashmir have understood the real meaning of “Azaadi” (freedom), she said adding that “They want freedom from such forces, which are trouble shooters and create disturbance, disrupt peace.”
”The section of people, which itself is not facing the bullets and canes, is instigating children, teenagers to indulge into violence, she said, adding, “They are using young minds as their shields.
The youngsters and our blue-eyed are being used as tool by negative forces, which instead of channelising energies, make use of them in escalating violence.”
“There are forces which could not digest the developmental programmes initiated under ‘Agenda of Alliance’ (AoA) by the PDP-BJP government and were not able to see peace returning to the state,” Ms Mufti said.
” Whenever it is peace, tourism season at its peak, Amarnath Yatra in progress, such forces get active to create trouble and ultimately its the common man, who suffers,” she said.
Actor Salman Khan last year was in Kashmir to shoot for his film ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’, but this year he preferred to go to Ladakh due to prevailing tension, she said claiming that violence had hit the tourism industry, thus affecting the economy of the State.
“In 2010, fake encounter, Shopian rape case and then deaths of minors happened and Kashmir remained tense, but this time no such incident happened,” she added.
The Chief Minister said three militants were killed in a gun battle and it was nothing new as encounters and killing of militants was a long matter, “But section of people got an opportunity to rake up the issue and put peaceful Kashmir on boil.”
“I want to say that there are countries which claim themselves as independent, but are the worst victims of terrorism,” she added.
Ms Mufti said countries like Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan are victims of terrorism, adding, “Once weapon enters such independent nations, there remains no peace.”
“Dialogue is the only solution to solve all the crisis not the weapon,” she said and added that due to terrorism, Muslims were facing embarrassment across the world, when only a section of people was responsible. (AGENCIES)
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