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Facing defiance, separatists seek Pak help | | | Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 4: Unnerved by the open defiance of protest calendar across Kashmir, the separatist leadership is now pleading failure before their Pakistani handlers. Insiders said for the past few days the separatist leaders who are spearheading the ongoing unrest have told their handlers across the Line of Control that they are unable to enforce hartal politics in the Valley anymore. Sources said the government has got to know about the change in temperament of the separatist leadership which is feeling tired after four months of agitation. The separatist leaders are understood to have asked their masters to change the strategy away from hartal as despite all pressures the people are unwilling to buy their directives any further. Insiders said the separatists told their "employers" that now delegations of various forums keep pouring in at the offices of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, only to convey their reservation over issuance of protest calendar. Sources said Geelani is most concerned to end the protest program lest "government tightens noose around his family, which had been minting fortunes in the name of Azadi." Insiders said the separatists told their Pakistani counterparts to themselves ask the people of Kashmir to end agitation before they face any embarrassment. "Even despite militant threats the people openly come out of their houses for routine work. So how can we help it out, it's better for you to call off the strike," the insiders quoted the separatist leaders as having told their handlers. It is pertinent to mention that for the last around a month, there has been open defiance of hartal even though miscreants resorted to arson, torching several vehicles and attacking pavement vendors who dared to move out. "With each passing the public resolve to end the hartal politics is getting strengthened," said a police official. Pertinently, it was initially the shops in area like Sanat Nagar, Jawahar Nagar and Raj Bagh which started running smoothly whereas subsequently business resumed in areas like Karan Nagar and Maharaja Bazar. Police believes that almost 70 percent of hartal is over and that all what needs to be restored is opening of shops in major markets in Srinagar. "Exams will facilitate reopening of schools. So hartal is almost over," said an official. The strike call by separatist leaders has been putting people of Kashmir to tremendous hardships. While business establishments are shut, the schools are also closed. After four days, the protests will complete four months. |
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