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| Death penalty for Yasin Malik: Altaf Bukhari tweets in support, then deletes! | | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 28: The decision of the Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party chief and former minister Sayed Altaf Bukhari to delete old and post a fresh tweet on the NIA’s plea for the death sentence of Yasin Malik raised many eye-brows.
Amid intense debate over the decision of the NIA to seek the death penalty for the chief Yasin Malik, Altaf Bukhari deleted his earlier tweet and followed the line of other Kashmir-centric parties as a damage control exercise. Within hours after his tweet on Saturday evoked a strong reaction from soft-separatist and separatist groups of Kashmir Valley, Altaf Bukhari deleted his earlier tweet and posted another tweet in favour of Yasin Malik.
“NIA is trying to be more hasty by approaching Delhi’s High Court for the death penalty in the case of Yasin Malik. Everyone deserves justice, we want justice no innocent should be trapped and no guilty should be spared. Yasin Malik’s case should be re-investigated. As we are already suffering from a dark phase after removal of 370 and statehood”, Altaf Bukhari tweeted at 9.58 PM on Saturday as a damage control exercise.
Altaf Bukhari earlier on Saturday at 13.45 PM said deterrent measures should be taken against those who are trying to threaten national security.
“NIA’s plea demanding the death penalty for Yasin Malik highlights the urgency to address militant funding in Jammu and Kashmir. We must ensure justice prevails and deterrent measures should be taken against those who are trying to threaten our nation’s security,” Bukhari said.
Seizing every opportunity to attack her former party colleague for, what she alleged, “betraying PDP, ex-Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti wasted no time in attacking Altaf Bukhari for defending the plea of the NIA.,
Mehbooba Mufti dubbed Bukhari as a “political Ikhwan”. She hailed convicted jailed JKLF chairman Yasin Malik as a “political prisoner”.
“In a democracy like India where even the assassins of a Prime Minister were pardoned, the case of a political prisoner like Yasin Malik must be reviewed and reconsidered. The new political Ikhwan gleefully supporting his hanging are a grave threat to our collective rights”, Mehbooba tweeted while tagging the statement of Altaf Bukhari.
Altaf Bukhari, who was Finance Minister in the PDP-BJP government headed by Mehbooba Mufti, was expelled from PDP on January 19, 2019, for “anti-party activities”.
Altaf Bukhari formed Apni Party in March 2020 to provide an alternative to National Conference and PDP in Kashmir Valley.
Bukhari had stated that the party would work for restoring the “self-esteem and pride” of the people of Jammu and Kashmir which has been hit by the demotion of an erstwhile princely state to a union territory. |
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