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SAYS THOSE WHO DIDN’T SPARED EVEN ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR BURNING SCHOOLS.

Srinagar: Urging all political forces not to destroy future of children for scoring political points, AIP Supremo and MLA Langate Er. Rashid has appealed Govt. to find some workable solution to accommodate the genuine concerns of students. In a statement issued To Kashmir Today Er. Rashid said.“Neither conducting exams would mean that Kashmiris have not accepted India’s stand on Kashmir, nor not conducting exams would mean Kashmiris have got freedom from India. In fact the political class of all streams needs to revisit their policies and understand the fact that nobody has a right to play with the future of Kashmir. There can be nothing disgusting than the fact that politicians are passing the buck by dragging students into controversies. However Govt. has a much more responsibility as neither resistance leadership nor someone else has to take a call that must satisfy not only student but address the concerns of parents.” Er. Rashid also added that while burning of schools is most shameful act but people have every reason to raise their fingers towards Govt.’s involvement in these mysterious incidents. He said “it is easy for a flopped Govt. to abuse and blame resistance leadership for these shameful incidents, however the track record from creating Ikhwani’s, the  counter insurgents to firing bullets on transformers gives a strong reason that state is doing all these mischief’s including burning schools to confuse Kashmiris and defame and demoralize them. If security forces could be seen damaging houses, vehicles, shops and other properties why can they not burn schools for specific purposes. Can any Govt. official deny the fact that not only transformers but banks, ATM’s, Ambulances hospitals and other Govt. assets were damaged to demoralize and frighten the masses, and there is every possibility that burning schools could be another operation to divert the attention from real issues. If security agencies could make on and often claims to unveil some bigger conspiracies before they take the real shape, why couldn’t the elements involved in burning schools be traced out by them”.    

It was Naeem Akhtar who wrote articles on Azadi on fake name of Iffat Khan: JKLF

Srinagar: Double faced people who in 1990 for their own interest held whole Kashmiri nation hostage for 72 days should not talk of lengthy strike calls. Statistics showing enhancement in literacy rate after 1990 people’s revolution clearly shows what our freedom struggle has given to this nation especially in the field of education. There is no doubt about the fact that oppressive measures of India and its Kashmiri stooges are pushing our new generation to armed mode of resistance. This was stated by the chief spokesman of JKLF Muhammad Rafiq Dar while commenting upon the recent assertions by so-called education minister Naeem Akhtar.

Terming Naeem Akhtar statement as absurd and a clear sign of frustration, JKLF spokesman said that JKLF chairman Yasin Malik does not need the certificate of a double faced politician  and  party who claim to be the champions of human rights but from last 110 days have unleashed state terrorism of worst kind against Kashmiri people. He said that no one can deny the fact that it was India and its Kashmiri stooges who prior to 1988 trampled the youth of Jammu Kashmir and pushed them towards an armed rebellion against illegal occupation. No one can even deny that these were the same forces that during peaceful revolutions of 2008, 2010, 2011 tortured youth like Burhan Wani, humiliated their families and left them with no choice but to join armed struggle.

Even Naeem Akhtar and his double face party, time and again accused national conference on these facts but now in 2016 when they have assumed power after an active collaboration with RSS they have beaten all previous records of tyranny and oppression. JKLF spokesman said that PDP rulers pretending as champions of human rights used to raise hue and cry over human rights abuses and pledged to disband police Task Force but as soon as they assumed power forgot about these pledges. On LK Advani’s one call this party turned every police station of Jammu Kashmir into a SOG camp. He said that during last 110 days, this party is responsible for killing about 100 civilian , injuring more than 15,000 people, snatching the eye sights of about hundreds  people, vandalizing residential houses and private property worth millions, humiliating Kashmiris and arresting more than 10,000 youths  among whom majority is of students and youth.

Spokesman said in a statement issued Said that what these shameless rulers are doing in Kashmir especially with youth is responsible for pushing  them to the wall and that is why these youth are snatching guns from Indian forces and police and joining armed struggle. He said that JKLF chairman had said in his press conference that India instead of blaming Pakistan should be thankful to them for not providing arms to these agitated youth because the oppressive measures of India and its Kashmiri stooges have left them with no other option but to take the other way should have been taken into its right perspective but Naeem Akhtar and his party want to give it a new twist.

Spokesman said that for Yasin Malik and JKLF this twisting of some hypocrites hardly matters as the whole world knows how JKLF after its unilateral ceasefire in 1994 was terrorized and intimidated and how its 600 men were massacred by Indian forces to send it back towards armed way but stood to its ideology  and commitment firmly and affectively. JKLF spokesman said that Naeem Akhtar by saying that we are blaming students for burning down of schools is trying to put his words in our mouth and is trying to deviate from the original issue. He has not answered our assertion that it can be the handiwork of those who burnt down temples in 1986 that too only to unseat Ghulam Muhammad shah from chief minister-ship.

He said that it is our firm belief that for the devilish work of burning down of schools only chief minister and education minister are responsible who for saving their government and showing politics of normalcy are intimidating and irritating students of Kashmir and thus pushing them to the wall. Spokesman said that it is ironical that Naeem Akhtar is trying to prove himself as the champion of education in Jammu Kashmir and is also trying to blame us as anti-education and literacy. We want to tell him that India and its stooges until 1990’s people’s revolution kept Kashmiris especially Muslims away from the real education and progress and it was our revolution in 1990 that brought Kashmir and Kashmiris to the lime-light of the real progress. Spokesman said that let Naeem Akhtar see the statistics in education sector after 1990. He will see the enhancement of rate in literacy and also the growing numbers of Kashmiris going to USA, UK, Europe and other parts of the world for higher education that too on scholarships.

He said that with Allah’s grace not only have the contemporary education and literacy grown but our youth and students have grown in moral education also. He said that Naeem Akhtar and his government are playing with the lives and careers of Lakhs of students by playing politics on education and exams and if he has some humanity and humility left, he should refrain from his arrogant anti-Kashmiri politics. On assertions of Naeem sahib that we have sent this nation to Stone Age by strike calls, JKLF Spokesman said that Naeem Akhtar should know that from last 110 days people of Kashmir are on protest against killings of about 100 people. People are on protest because PDP government has snatched eye sights of hundreds, vandalized every house hold and arrested thousands of youth. People are protesting because PDP rulers through operation calm down have shamefully surpassed every previous tyrant and oppressor. This protest is people’s anger against atrocities and not for any personal matters of Geelani, Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik.

But we want to remind Naeem Akhtar that if long protest strikes are sending people to Stone Age then this nation has been taught this by none other than Naeem Akhtar himself. It was Naeem Akhtar who along with other officers like Ghulam Nabi Mubarki, Muzaffar Ahmad Khan (director handicrafts), Abdul Hameed Matoo (Chief engineer), Ishtiyaq Qadri and Abdul Salam (administrator municipality) and others in September 1990 pushed this nation for a 72 day long Hartal that too for their own purpose as they had been dismissed from services by governor of that time.

He said that this nation does know that it was Naeem Akhtar who wrote articles on Azadi on fake name of Iffat Khan. JKLF Spokesman said that PDP politics of deception has touched new heights of shame. PDP started its politics of green robes and exploited Kashmiri Muslims in the name of human rights and religion, asked for their votes against RSS and BJP but at the end secretly collaborated with the same, dividing Muslims in Jammu and thus strengthening chauvinist forces there.

Spokesman said that JKLF is proud that it started a people’s revolution in 1988 that uprooted the most powerful and deep rooted NC and as our national duty will do everything to expose the duplicitous politics of PDP. He said that with Allah’s grace PDP’s politics of exploitation stands exposed before the people of Jammu Kashmir now. (PTK)

Bandipora: At least two militants are believed to have escaped after exchanging heavy fire with government forces in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Officials said that 14 RR and SOG of Jammu and Kashmir police cordoned off a residential house in Ajar area following inputs about the presence of militants today morning.

The militants hiding in the house opened fire, triggering an encounter, they said.

However, the militants are believed to have escaped from the site of the encounter.

Officials said that a search operation has been launched to trace the militants.

Jammu: For Ravi Kiran Raina, a software engineer with a leading multi-national company in New Delhi, the report of each school getting burnt in Kashmir not only makes him sad but also refreshes bitter memories of his days as a student after the exodus of 3.50 lakh Pandits in 1990.Now a frequent traveler to Europe and the US on business trips every few months, Raina’s journey to get education after migration was full of struggle and frustration. He would feel disheartened on account of delay and postponement of examinations. There were no facilities to display and promote talents in evening colleges opened by the government to allow displaced minorities to pursue education.Ravi is not alone but he belongs to a generation of Pandit youth who were forced to leave the Valley after the eruption of militancy in 1990. The youth studied in squalid migrant camps in sweltering summer heat of Jammu, pursuing their dreams with determination.“It took me five years to complete my graduation from Kashmir University (KU) because continuous protests and militant attacks would force the university to defer the exams and results were not announced on time. Today when I read about the loss of an academic session in the Valley, I feel pity for separatists and agenda they are pursuing for younger generation,” said Ravi Kiran who completed his BSc in 1995 from KU’’s offsite campus in Jammu.Every displaced Pandit student, who was in school or college in 1990, lost nine to 12 months of his/her academic session after the exodus forced several people to discontinue studies.Worst-hit were school kids who studied in tents without facilities leaving a lasting impression on their life despite achieving remarkable success in various fields.“Schooling was a formality for us. Due to lack of classrooms, disruption of class work was routine in hot weather and rain. Those politicising education in Kashmir will never understand its value and how one feels when you are pushed to extreme by circumstances,” said Manju Bambroo, who now lives in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.About seven camp schools were established in Jammu to adjust thousands of students and teachers belonging to the minority community. During initial years, these lacked facilities of laboratory and library, affecting students and even the brightest among them.Vijay Bakaya, who was Divisional Commissioner (Jammu) between 1989-90 and was instrumental in the opening of camp schools and colleges, said, “Displaced youth suffered but the government adjusted thousands of teachers in these institutions and community too sacrificed much to educate their children to channelise trauma of migration in a positive way,” Bakaya said.The situation in the Kashmir valley is now coming a full circle to early years of militancy, when educational institutions were the first target of militants under a deliberate policy to drive away children from liberal education. (TNS) 

Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (m) Monday expressed shock and strongly denounced the murderous assault on Qaiser Hameed Sofi, son of Abdul Hameed Sofi of Shalimar, a 16-year-old student of Mirak Shah Sahab School, “who was arrested by the forces and beaten and tortured and then forcibly” fed a germicide called “Neva” by the forces on Friday, October 28, 2016, and left in an unconscious state on the roadside following which he is battling for  his life at SKIMS, Soura where he is on a ventilator.

Expressing sympathy and sharing the pain of Qaiser’s parents and family who had come to visit the Hurriyat Conference (m) chairperson, who continues to be under house arrest, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq denounced the murderous assault on the young student and said such cruelty and barbarity find few parallels in today’s age.

Deploring the forces for harassing people through crackdowns and ransacking of homes, the APHC-m Chairperson said, “in yet another barbaric incident, a nine-year-old girl of Kulgam died of cardiac arrest during these raids and expressed sympathy and solidarity with her parents.”

Stressing that the forces “taking advantage of draconian laws” under which they enjoy impunity were “carrying out a systematic wipe out of Kashmir’s young  population”, Mirwaiz once again called upon the international human rights bodies to wake up to the brutalities of Kashmir.

Commenting on Omar Abdullah’s statement in which he said that Hurriyat Conference “did not act in time to save school buildings”, the Hurriyat Conference said, “after commending GoI for its integrity with regard to Kashmir and paying obeisance to his masters in his New York  speech, Abdullah has suddenly woken up to express his deep concern about the future of Kashmiri children, when a few years ago he did not hesitate to facilitate the brutal killing of 120 young Kashmiris many among them school going children  as the likes of 15-yr-old Shaheed Tufail Matoo who was killed in cold blood on his way  home from school.”

“Post his New York utterances which have once again exposed his lust for chair and his crocodile tears  of concern for people, Mr Abdullah now goes to the extent of deliberately spinning the facts and asking Hurriyat to have the courage to condemn the school  burning incident, when he very well knows that not only has the resistance leadership repeatedly condemned it but it is greatly concerned about the seriousness of the school burning episodes which seems aimed at maligning the people’s movement and the handiwork of anti-movement agencies,” the Hurriyat Conference (m) said in the statement issued this evening.

It said that such statements are “aimed at” making the right noises to “please his masters” in New Delhi, “but it seems try as he may, as of now Mr Abdullah is out of favour with the dispensation there”.

Meanwhile, the Hurriyat Conference (m) spokesperson condemned the continued house arrest of the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, senior Hurriyat leader, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza and APHC-m Media Advisor, Advocate Shahid-ul-Islam, arrest and slapping of PSA of veteran and ailing Hurriyat Conference leader Ghulam Nabi Zaki, who has been detained at Kot Bhalwal Jail.

The spokesperson said, “ransacking of homes, nocturnal raids and arresting of youth, continues unabated. While critical injuries were sustained by half-a-dozen youth who were protesting peacefully in Pulwama, and condemned the use of unabated violence on people.”

Srinagar: JKPCC Chief. G.A. Mir today expressed disappointment over the incidents of burning down of school buildings in various parts of the valley and strongly condemned these unlawful activities, which is being performed to destroy the career of our children.
He said it the inefficiency and incompetence of the State, which is not able to protect the infrastructure in the valley and secure the future of children from being getting ruined. He said the burning down of School is an attack on the future of our children and the culprits must be identified sternest punishment.
The attack on School is a ploy to damage Education system, Govt must come out of the deep slumber and stop such unlawful activities. He said this was an objectionable attempt to destroy the future of our children and it cannot be tolerated. He asked the Govt to identify the culprits for sternest punishment and ensure that no other school building is torched again.
Describing burning down of school as greatest tragedies, PCC Chief said that Govt must rise to the occasion to protect education institutions, as such type of unfortunate incidents reflects the utter failure of the State Govt, he added. (KNS)

Srinagar: United Jihad Council (UJC) on Monday blamed security establishment for burning of educational institutions in Kashmir Valley. 

UJC Chief Syed Salahuddin said that there was no escape for the “agents of Indian security establishment” involved in such incidents. 

“The schools are burnt down to defame the historical Kashmir Freedom Movement. Indian stooges are targeting schools to divert the attention from main Kashmir issue,” he said. 

In a statement, he said: “We appeal to freedom loving people to protect all the educational institutions including private schools and help us to expose the culprits. All resources will be utilized to expose and eliminate these elements,” he said. 

“Such strategies used by India in past as well have failed and these are bound to fail yet again,” Salahuddin said. (CNS)

‘Govt should release all political detainees, separatist leaders’