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| No anti-terror law could be extended to J&K unilaterally: Mehbooba | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec16- Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti has said that any anti-terror law devised for the country can't be extended to the State of Jammu and Kashmir without the consent of the State legislature.
Addressing series of election meetings in Eidgah constituency of Srinagar today, Mehbooba said her party would in no case allow any unilateral decision on extending any terror laws to J&K including the proposed National Investigating Agency.
Mufti said introducing fresh curbs on civil liberties in J&K would be antithetical to the process of democratization of the State which is already reeling under the impact of the laws like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and Disturbed Areas Act. "This would particularly be an affront to the people of the State who are trying to come out of the trauma inflicted on them by incessant violence of two decades and are sending out strong signals of peace, amicability and tolerance through their current democratic exercise," she said.
Mehbooba said the Government led by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had refused to enforce POTA when it took over in 2002 even after the NC Government of Dr Farooq Abdullah in collusion with his RSS mentors in Delhi had already extended it to J&K. "A hapless family in the downtown area of Srinagar was the first victim of this dreaded law in the entire country and to please his BJP partners Dr Abdullah had personally held it out as a great action against terrorism," she said and added that NC President Omar Abdullah as a central minister in the NDA regime was a party in extending POTA to the State. PDP candidate for Eidgah constituency Asifa Tariq also addressed the meetings.
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