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| Mehbooba for opening of traditional routes under rehab Policy | | 'Says the current format of the policy was 'unclear and discouraging' | | ET Plus Report
Srinagar, June 24 (KNS): Putting a question mark on the Government's intention on the rehabilitation policy of the youth returning from across the line of Control, Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti Monday said that the current format of the policy was unclear and discouraging for those who actually want to take the benefit of the policy.
"If you have a policy duly endorsed by not only the local government but the federal governments of both the countries, what is the fun of asking them to take the Nepal route which is not only expensive but
risky," Mehbooba said citing Liyakat Ali Shah's case. While talking to KNS after meeting a group of delegation who had called upon her regarding the issue, she urged that the traditional routs of Srinagar-Muzaferabad and Ponch Rawalkot should be used for these persons.
"When they had crossed over to other side of the control line, they were young, but now most of them are in their middle age and some even in their old age and they have the families as well.
Still they are made to roam around Police stations and courts to defend their cases which have been lodged decades back," said Mehbooba, demanding that all the FIR's and other cases should be settled at an earliest against
those who return their homes under the policy.
"The big issue is of their families. They have Pak origin wives and the kids also, but unfortunately Kashmir has become a virtual jail for them. Government doesn't have any policy to allow them visit their parents at the time of even eventualities," asserted Mehbooba while expressing sympathy with the wives of the returnees and said that they should be allowed to visit at least once in a year to their parents. |
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