Srinagar, India,April 24 (Scoop News) – President of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti while condemning the killing of innocent person at Chewan Keller village in Sopore followed by firing on unarmed innocent people by security forces,regretted that situation in Kashmir Valley has been deteriorating with each passing day due to wrong policies of the National Conference led coalition in the State.
In a statement issued here today, Mehbooba Mufti said that incident of human right violation have been increasing but the government was not seriously stopping such incident. She pointed out during the last 15 months incidents of human rights violation have been increased manifold as the government failed to keep a control on security forces. She reiterated demand of her party that draconian law like Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA) should be revoked to avoid reoccurrence of such incident. Perpetrators of human right violation have been taking benefit of harsh laws like AFSMA and revocation of such acts was must to stop killing of innocent people.
She strongly condemned firing on the unarmed innocent people who were protesting against killing at Sopore. “It is unfortunate that the State Government has not learnt any lesson from the past”, she said and added that instead of adopting holistic approach this regime has become extension of the security forces. She mentioned that just a few days back, security forces had murdered a 70 years old man and branded him as terrorist.
Mehbooba also condemned the killing of a National Conference activist Sonaullah War and a cable operator Ashiq Hussain in different areas of Kashmir Valley. She observed that situation has been sliding back to pre-2002 situation due to the wrong policies of government.