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| Naya Kashmir: In Yasin Malik’s Maisuma, children play cricket with policemen | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 29: In yet another major setback to the dying separatist politics in Kashmir, the kids living in native locality of terror convict Yasin Malik were seen playing cricket with the policemen soon after he was given the life sentence.
A photo, which has gone viral on the social media, shows policemen playing cricket with the kids of the locality as some of the shops were observing shutdown after Malik was convicted by a special court in the national capital.
The picture shows a police officer batting while kids do bowling on the street, which had remained infamous for the anti-India sentiment in the past.
As per the witnesses, the cricket matches continued throughout the day with the children feeling thrilled to play with the cops on duty.
Maisuma, till some two years ago used to be seen as bastion of “anti India sentiment where more stone pelting would take place than business days being observed.”
The abrogation of the so-called special status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019 seems to have brought the sea change.
An elderly person living in Maisuma locality said it was for the first time that the children of the locality were playing with the policemen and that it was a heartwarming gesture. “Children who would otherwise pelt stones playing cricket with all excitement with the policemen is enough to explain the change,” the man hailed.
The prison officials at Delhi’s Tihar Jail have kept Malik in a separate cell, under heavy security, since a special NIA court in Delhi sentenced him to life imprisonment in a terror funding case.
A Delhi court on May 25 awarded life imprisonment to Malik in a terror funding case, saying that the crimes committed by him struck at the “heart of the idea of India” and were intended to forcefully secede Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah are being widely hailed for brining the change in Kashmir through the abrogation of the “special status”, which was seen as a main reason of “indoctrination.” |
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