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| Tourists, students may have to carry first aid boxes as stone-pelters call shots | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 3: Stone-pelters attacking tourists and students at Aishmuqam and Shopian in south Kashmir during the past two days has pressed the panic button.
"Tourists who intend to visit the Valley in coming days or months may have to reconsider their decision about their trip to Kashmir as stone-pelters, who were granted amnesty by the PDP led government are ruling the streets," said an analyst.
He said, "If the stone pelters continue to unleash terror then the tourists and students would have to carry the first aid kits along to save their lives."
It may be recalled that on Tuesday seven tourists from Kerala were injured when miscreants pelted stones at their vehicles near Aishmuqam. The injured were part of a group of 47 tourists travelling in four vans.
The windowpanes of the vans were shattered due to the stone-pelting and tourists couldn't proceed with their journey till late in the night due to the fear of stone-pelters. In another incident stone-pelters attacked a school bus in Shopian district and injured two minor students.
A Kashmir watcher said, "PDP tried to score a brownie point by granting amnesty to the stone-pelters. Now they (stone-pelters) are showing their true colours and are openly attacking the tourists and the school children."
He said, "These stone-pelters are the same people who pushed Kashmir to brink in 2008, 2010 and 2016. The present regime without going into their past record blindly granted amnesty to them."
Working President of the Opposition National Conference and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah took to twitter to express his dismay over the incidents."The amnesty granted to stone-pelters was meant to encourage more reasonable behaviour but some of these goons are determined to use the opportunity given to them to just pelt more stones," Omar wrote on Twitter.
In another tweet, Omar said, "How does pelting stones on school children or tourist buses help advance the agenda of these stone pelters? These attacks deserve our unequivocal condemnation & this tweet is mine."
A PDP leader tried to downplay the stone-pelting incidents. "Media is trying to blow out minor incidents out of proportion. The Chief Minister has already announced that perpetrators would face the law," he said, "Our government won't allow situation to go out of hand but we cannot stop engaging youth we have to bring them back."
A politician said, "It looks like that PDP wants stone-pelters to kill someone so that incident can become big. If they (PDP leaders) don't come out from the denial mode it can have far reaching consequences." |
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