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| Assad demands special package for Kashmiri youth shunning militancy | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | May 19
Kashmiri youth, who have given up the path of militancy, should be treated in a dignified manner and a specific package for their rehabilitation, as envisaged in the recommendations of the Working Group of CBM, need to be announced.
This was stated by General Secretary PDP Youth Wing Bashir Assad at the workers convention held at Lar Ganderbal in Kashmir today.
He said that the cases of all the detainees should be reviewed and those under trial for minor offences should be released as a good will gesture.
Asserting that law and order was to be maintained through normal laws, the PDP leader reiterated the party demand of revocation of laws that impinge on fundamental rights of common citizens, such as Armed Forces Special Powers Act. "There is a need to create conditions conducive which would ease the situation in the state" Assad said and asserted that today, the winds of change are blowing across the entire sub-continent for reconciliation and re-appraisal and both India and Pakistan have agreed to resolve the outstanding issues through negotiations. Since the ground situation in Kashmir was fast changing it was imperative to withdraw the draconian laws, besides reduction of troops, he said and added that military intervention in the state should be minimized through reduction of troops.
Assad said that PDP patron Mufti Muhammad Sayed and Party President Mehbooba Mufti have put the Kashmir polity in rationale context which has certainly helped in peace and reconciliation. He asserted that vigorous efforts of PDP leadership in bringing peace to the region have been fully translated into action by the three years PDP led coalition government.
G.M. Lone Zonal President Ganderbal in his address to the convention lashed out at NC leadership for playing with the sentiments of the people of Ganderbal during their 27 years despotic rule.
Other PDP leaders who addressed the convention included Qazi Umer Farooq, Abdul Ahad Dar, Abdul Rashid Mir, Umer Gull and Bashir Ahmad. |
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