{"id":12385,"date":"2018-07-21T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=12385"},"modified":"2018-07-21T13:30:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T08:00:18","slug":"pained-at-loss-of-civilian-lives-dgp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=12385","title":{"rendered":"Pained at loss of civilian lives: DGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><i>\u2018We are taking all measures to avoid such killings\u2019<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><i>In the backdrop of surge in civilian killings during the encounters between security forces and militants, Director General of Police (DGP) S P Vaid Friday said that it is painful to see loss of any civilian life and reiterated his appeal to the youth to stay away from encounter cites.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cIt is painful to all of us to see loss of any civilian life. A bullet does not know whom it will hit. My appeal to all the young boys is that they should remain at home and not come to encounter sites. They should not pelt stone on security forces,\u201d the DGP told KNS after paying tributes to martyrs of 1931at Naqashband Sahib here in down town.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>The DGP maintained that there are strict directors to the security forces to avoid civilian killings. \u201cWe have talked to Army, CRPF to ensure that no harm is done to the civilians during the encounters with militants,\u201d he maintained.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>He said that in an encounter, even security forces and police take cover of a bulletproof vehicle or a house. \u201cYouth storming the encounter sites are committing suicide,\u201d the DGP said.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>The DGP urged the youth to think about the families of those who lost their lives in the firing near the encounter site. \u201cThink of the mother, father, sister or brother of those youth. People soon forget those who died. Their families suffer the most. We all would be doing our jobs,\u201d he said.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>He added that they are taking measures to avoid such things, including preventing people from holding demonstration near encounter cites.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>He said that people must understand that the security forces are their own brothers and are fighting militancy to restore peace in the valley.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We are taking all measures to avoid such killings\u2019 In the backdrop of surge in civilian killings during the encounters between security forces and militants, Director General of Police (DGP) S P Vaid Friday said that it is painful to see loss of any civilian life and reiterated his appeal to the youth to stay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}