Terrorists have killed at least seven civilians in the Kashmir valley this month. Four of those killed were members of minority groups, and six of the deaths were reported in Srinagar.
In the aftermath of the latest killings, 700 people were imprisoned, according to Mufti, in order to “shift the blame and absolve themselves.”
“The administration in J&K had prior knowledge of attacks against minorities. Nonetheless, they chose to disregard these suggestions. Instead, they were occupied with providing protection to Union Ministers who had been dispatched to Kashmir to propagate the BJP’s false narrative and propaganda of so-called normalcy in J&K,” she remarked on Twitter.
The former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir is on a five-day visit of the Chenab valley region. Since Sunday, she has addressed PDP workers’ conventions in various locations throughout her visit.
“By refusing to accept responsibility and detaining 700 citizens, they are attempting to deflect blame and absolve themselves.” In another tweet, Mufti wrote, “Collective punishment and humiliation of an entire people has become the one-size-fits-all solution to resolving problems produced by the GOI’s punitive policies.”
Supinder Kaur, a Sikh from Srinagar, and Chand, a Hindu from Jammu, were assassinated two days after The Resistance Force, a splinter group of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), claimed responsibility for the deaths of three individuals on October 5.
That evening, Makhan Lal Bindroo, a prominent Kashmiri Pandit and the owner of Srinagar’s most famous pharmacy, was shot and killed in his shop. A “chaat” vendor from Bihar, Virendra Paswan, was shot and killed minutes later somewhere in the city. Another civilian, Mohammad Shafi Lone, was slain at Naidkhai in Bandipora at the same time.
On October 2, militants killed Majid Ahmad Gojri in the Karan Nagar neighbourhood of Srinagar and Mohammad Shafi Dar in the Batamaloo neighbourhood of the city.
(With inputs from Agencies)
The Chenab Times News Desk