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| With Kashmir buried under snow, the secessionist Neros playing politics | | Security forces once again came to the rescue of sufferers | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Feb 10
News Analysis
"When Rome was burning, Nero was playing on his flute". True to this popular anecdote the secessionist leaders of all hue in Kashmir are indulging in politics, furthering their secessionist and anti India agenda, even at a time when the entire Kashmir Valley and many hilly areas of Jammu region are buried under deep snow and inflicted by avalanches, taking a toll of about three dozen human lives and untold miseries to a very large number of people. Unmindful of the hardships and trauma suffered by the common kashmiris as well as Jammuites in the upper hilly reaches, cut off from the rest of the world, with roads blocked, due to landslides and avalanches at various places and even air service remaining suspended for first three days, the hardcore secessionist and Islamic fundamentalist leader Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani as well as so called moderate leader, a newly entrant into the Mirwaiz led Hurriyat Conference, Shabir Ahmad Shah, the Chairman of Democratic Freedom Party, were busy addressing a teleconference in PoK and Pakistan, while sitting in Srinagar, to mark the celebrations of Kashmir Solidarity Day, which has become an annual ritual in Pakistan and PoK. While these secessionist leaders were conveying their solidarity and pseudo concern for the Kashmiris pledging their solidarity with the people of PoK and Pakistan and visa versa, none of them came out to help the suffering masses in Kashmir, not to speak of those residing upper hilly areas in Jammu region.
These secessionist leaders are now busying themselves for making successful the Kashmir bandh call given by them, for February 11, to observe the hanging of late JKLF leader Maqbool Bhatt, who was hanged in Tihar Jai for his involvement in killing several innocent people, in the name of Jehad launched for "liberation of Kashmir from India". The general strike today February 11, will only compound the miseries of the common people, who are already denied free access to essential commodities, in view of Jammu-Srinagar national highway remaining blocked for seven days together as well as interior roads within the valley remaining snow bound and even washed away. If these secessionist leaders, the self styled messaihas of Kashmiris had really any sympathy for the suffering masses due to the natural calamity that has befallen them, they would have not compounded the hardships of the people by giving the call for general strike. Instead they could observe this annual ritual, in observance of which the rival separatist outfits try to surpass each other, through other means, which could spare further hardships to the already suffering masses.
Against this callous attitude of the secessionist politicians in Kashmir, it are the much maligned security forces, the state police, the country's paramilitary forces, army as well as the air force which have come to the rescue of the sufferers of the natural calamity of a serious magnitude. While the state police rescued some people buried in snow at Ghulab Bagh near Qazikund and evacuated them to the safer place, as also dug out a dead body, for which they have earned the gratitude of the common man, the armed forces have once again come to the help of sufferers in the natural calamity, by evacuated many to safer places, providing them much succour, by providing them food, blankets, clothing and medicines to the ailing. The Indian Air Force has in particular rendered a yeoman's service in airlifting free of any charge about 3000 stranded passengers in Jammu and Udampur as well as in Srinagar, giving them free ride in the IAF planes, who took several sorties between Jammu and Srinagar and Udampur and Srinagar.
The Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad also deserves appreciation for air dashing to Srinagar on the first available opportunity, to personally supervise and guide disaster management and issue instructions to the administration to gear up to face the crisis, providing necessary relief to the affected people as well as restoration of power and water supply. He also air dashed to Bhaderwah and then trekked on foot deeply snow covered paths to reach various parts of Doda district, to personally have assessment of the loss as well as provide necessary relief and gear up the administrative machinery to cope with the disaster. He has also sent teams of his ministers and administrative heads to various affected areas for doing the needful to help the sufferers. |
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