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Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 2: After the startling revelation made by four Hizbul Mujahideen militants in police custody that they were given job by their supreme commander to target Sarpanches, a sense of insecurity has once again developed among the thousands of Panchayat leaders across the Jammu and Kashmir. Six Sarapnches have been killed by the unidentified militants and nearly a dozen have been injured in the past one and half year in Jammu Kashmir.
It is pertinent to mention here that four HM militants arrested a few days back by Police in connection with attack on a Sarpanch and killing of an SPO in Sopur area of north Kashmir revealed during their interrogation that they had a target to kill at least five sarpanches across the state till Eid.
Police said that the arrested militants told them that this direction was passed to the militants by united jihad council chairman Syed Slah-u-Din from across the LOC. Taking the development seriously, All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC), an apex body of Panchayat leaders of the state, convened an emergency meeting in Srinagar on Friday and took the stock of the situation.
Presided over by Chairman AJKPC, Shafiq Mir, the Panchayat leaders expressed their deep concern over the safety and security of Panches and Sarpanches in the state of Jammu and Kashmir and appealed the central government to intervene for their security. Speaking on the occasion provincial president Kashmir Imtiaz Afzal Beig said, "Now the police has itself came out with a statement that militants were planning to target the Panchayat leaders and the orders were being issued from across the border." While demanding the security cover for Panchayat leaders, Mir wanted clear statement from the central government whether they can protect the panchayat leaders or not. |
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