Shopian, Omar Abdullah and Kashmir. The only common thing with them is that they hold the key to each other in maintaining sanity. By the way hello readers, its me again. I know that my blog has lost its readership but this blog is dedicated to a dear dear friend who wants me to write (though never insisted so). Well, this friend of mine does not that I wish to save my readers from the torture of going through my posts... Anyways, of late, I have travelled virtually to every nook and corner of the Kashmir valley and met cross section of people.
Well, I was trying to understand Kashmir's people again. Why do they go hyper over issues? Shopian incident was something which should not have happened but did anyone give time to Omar Abdullah to react to the situation. The very next day, people were on streets enforcing bandhs.And even before Omar could react, he found himself drowned in confusion and chaos from every side. The truth of Shopian can be found only in Shopian and one needs to talk to the neighbourhood of the victims...the truth is there but no one is willing so say that. The doctors who conducted the postmortem on the two victims have surprisingly written no cause of death and privately they have acknowledged that they have found nothing fishy. But still who will bell the cat?????
The irony lies in another fact which has been found in this town of South Kashmir, predominantly a Hizbul Mujahideen militant dominated area and having a considerable Jamaat population.
Ten kilometres from the site of Shopian village lies another dead body of a girl who has been brutally raped and later murdered by Hizbul Mujahideen militants. Barely a few days before after the Shopian incident, Nigeena Awan was dragged out of her home at Kellar, beaten up and executed with an assault weapon from point blank range. Her father, Mohammad Sharif Awan, was ordered to bury his daughter without ceremony; the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, which carried out the execution, also warned neighbours against dignifying her death with last rites.
Hours after her death, PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti visited Shopian to stage a protest against the alleged rape and murder of two local women — one of them, like Awan, a high school student. The death of Awan execution did not figure anywhere in her speech nor did it in speeches of clerics who have emerged as the key leader of the Shopian protests. No one has called for the men who killed Awan to be found and prosecuted. No one even bothered to visit her family, even though the hamlet of Pahlipora at Kellar is just a 10-km drive from Shopian.
People, sitting back at their homes in posh drawing rooms, have already started giving numbers to Omar Abdullah for his performance. Some are giving him four out of 10 and some even minus five. I don't hold a brief for Omar but would like to ask these people a question. Stand in front of mirror and and answer to your own self, what wrong has Omar done. He only promised to bring out truth and all he requires to have some time. Cant we give him. At least his track record of bringing out the truth has been 100 per cent be it in Sopore incident or be it a canard spread by PDP MLA about damages in Bandipore.
Omar has come and is aware of the expectations that the younger generation have from him. Let us Give him a chance. Does he not deserve one??? I have never met him but still have faith in him...Let us pray that our Kashmir becomes a heaven on earth...a true heaven. Amen....
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