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| BATTLE OF BALLOTS IN POK, BATTLING WITH GRENADES IN KASHMIR | | | Srinagar, July 11:- While people in Pakistan administered Kashmir remained engaged in the election to the 49-member Assembly on Tuesday, the Kashmir valley was rocked by serial blasts in which seven people were killed and several others wounded.
Tuesday witnessed two contrasting scenes in the divided Kashmir.Here in the valley militants carried out four grenade attacks,most of them on the tourist coaches,in high security zone belt and across the border supporters of contesting parties indulged in slogan shouting.While in Pakistan administered Kashmir people were seen carrying party flags and banners in Srinagar security forces and people were seen carrying the wounded to the hospitals.
Across the border the Pakistani troops were put on a high alert for ensuring free and fair election,and in Srinagar the police and paramilitary forces were alerated after the serial blasts.Right from Regal chowk to Abi Guzar and Lal Chowk the police and paramilitary forces cordoned off the entire belt and a man hunt was launched for those involved in the serial blasts.
In Pakistan administered Kashmir the leaders and supporters of the JKLF,headed by Amanullah Khan, staged
protests over the way the nomination papers of the party candidates were rejected on the plea that that the candidates had not filed an affidavit pledging that Azad Kashmir was part of Pakistan,in Srinagar people were gripped by panic when tourist coaches and vans were attacked with grenades.
Kashmiri separatist leaders said that the situation will not improve unless the Kashmir problem was resolved.A senior APHC leader,Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat told Kashmir Independent Press on Tuesday "we have been helping both Islambad and Delhi for hammering out a solution to the vexed Kashmir issue."
He,however,expressed dismay over the way the Government of India adopted procrastination in the dialogue process with the Hurriyat leaders.He said that there was need for India to adopt flexibility and involve separatists besides those holding the guns in the dialogue.
Prof. Bhat stated that "we are happy that Delhi has agreed to continue the dialogue process with us but the long gaps in the talks deprives the process of much needed continuity."He said that the solution to the Kashmir issue lay in sustained and purposeful trilateral dialogue.
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