{"id":5017,"date":"2016-09-27T09:24:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T03:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5017"},"modified":"2016-09-27T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T03:54:08","slug":"jk-education-minister-advises-people-read-geelanis-wullar-kinaray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5017","title":{"rendered":"JK education minister advises people to read Geelani\u2019s \u2018Wullar Kinaray\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Says Govt committed to address basic issue of Kashmir<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Minister of Education, Naeem Akhtar, today said that government is not \u201csimply doing anger management\u201d in Kashmir but is committed to address the basic issue of Kashmir which cannot be brushed aside.
\nAkhtar was speaking at teachers\u2019 conference at Women\u2019s College M A Road, here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI assure you the situation will not remain same. And, once the situation normalizes, our government will take steps to address the basic issue,\u201d Akhtar said.
\nAkhtar said the examination of 10th and 12th classes will be held as planned. He said he mourned the killing, blinding and maiming of children and equally mourned the \u201cprecious academic time that has been lost.\u201d
\n\u201cI am overwhelmed with a sense of defeat,\u201d Akhtar said in an emotional tone. \u201cThese children who got killed don\u2019t even know what they are doing. They are getting killed while running after a mirage. I am not able to help. I am immensely a helpless person,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Coming down on the resistance leaders for their \u201cprotest strategy\u201d, Akhtar said, \u201cThere is no example in the world where a nation has empowered itself by inflicting harm on itself. What kind of strategy is this to fight a war? Here we are disempowering ourselves intellectually, economically and physically.\u201d
\n\u201cThose kids who should have been in schools are enforcing curfew in villages and cities,\u201d he said.
\nTerming himself as one of the most \u201cunpopular leaders\u201d Akhtar expressed his disappointment about the disruption in academic calendar. \u201cWe should have been reaping the benefits of several initiatives which halted because of the disruptions. I find myself as a sorrowful man. I have achieved nothing,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cI know many of you must have issues with me. I get abused on social media and everywhere. This tragedy has broken my heart but not my courage. I will put forward my word so that it may find some resonance among you.\u201d
\nTerming Syed Ali Shah Geelani as the \u201cabsolute head of resistance movement\u201d, Akhtar in a surprising move asked the audience to read his Wullar Kinaray. \u201cEveryone should read his (Geelani\u2019s) book wherein he has documented his struggle right from early childhood. Despite immense hardships he never gave up the dream of education and the best of his days were spent as a teacher,\u201d Akhtar said.
\n\u201cSimilarly, Mirwaiz too overcame his personal struggle and completed his PhD as an accomplished scholar. He never stopped his journey of education come what may.\u201d
\n\u201cI am firm believer that these leaders are not against education and it is some third unscrupulous element that has caused the disruption of education,\u201d Akhtar said.
\n\u201cIt is somebody else who burns schools and exploits children by terming them as soldiers of freedom. Even our religion has kept children and women out of war.\u201d
\nAkhtar said that education is coming back on rails and normal activities like teachers training will resume within a week. The conference was attended by hundreds of school and college teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Says Govt committed to address basic issue of Kashmir Minister of Education, Naeem Akhtar, today said that government is not \u201csimply doing anger management\u201d in Kashmir but is committed to address the basic issue of Kashmir which cannot be brushed aside. Akhtar was speaking at teachers\u2019 conference at Women\u2019s College M A Road, here. \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5017","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\/5017","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=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/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=5017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}