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| Kashmiris feel uneasy over the timing of death sentence awarded to Guru by the court | | |
Srinagar, September 28 :- People in Kashmir feel upset over the date and time fixed for the execution of Mohd. Afzal Guru allegedly involved in the terrorist attack on Indian Parliament on December 13,2001.The court had fixed the date of execution on October 20 when muslims in Jammu and Kashmir will be preoccupied with the holy month of Ramdan.
Number of Kashmiri intellectuals, including Ali Mohammad Bashir Ahmed, and Tariq, said that three important religious festivals fall during the third week of October. They said people in Kashmir will be busy in connection with Shabi Qaddar, Jamaitul Vida and Eid-u-Fitre and hence execution of Moh.Afzal Guru would turn the valley into an abode of grief, shock and despondency.
They said they wished the honourable court had kept its judgement reserved and announced it after the end of the Ramdan month.
Already the valley has witnessed series of protest demonstrations against the execution order served by the court. On Friday a senior separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, has given a call for total shutdown in the valley to register peoples’ anger against the order of execution of Mr Guru.
Observers in Srinagar said that the court order had given a handle to the separatists and militants to pinch the Government at the cost of peoples ’comfort and security. They said that the hangover of the execution of Maqbool Butt,founder President of the JKLF in 1984 has not ended even after the lapse of 22 years. His execution had also created a piquant situation in Kashmir when people staged protest demonstrations for several days and fought pitched battle with the police. The police had a difficult task in tackling the situation when militancy had not taken roots in the valley and people made it cumbersome for the police to deal with the situation when they (people) used kangris and stones for measuring swords with the police.
Observers said that the central Government should have intervened in advance and persuaded the court to keep its verdit in abeyance as announcing the judgement at a time when the security scenario in Kashmir was brittle could add to the aches of the state authorities.
While the separatists have started cashing on the death sentence awarded to Mohd.Afzal Guru the mainstream political leaders have been placed in a tight corner. Police expediency has forced them to keep their mouth shut. Neither they can support the court verdict nor criticize the judicial authority for choosing a wrong time for announcing its verdict.
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