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| Demilitarize civilian areas, official mindset: Mehbooba | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar Feb 15: Expressing grief over the loss of three children of a family in an accidental blast, Opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) today said the tragedy underlines the need for demilitarizing not just the civilian areas but also the mindset that has been approaching Kashmir problem with force alone.
''It has been the consistent stand of our party that the people of the state should be allowed full liberties and freedom provided under a democratic polity in which security forces don't breathe down their neck all the time.
''The tragedies like the death of three children or the recent killings in Chogul, Handwara or Sopore will continue to visit unless civil society is provided the free space that it deserves as a right,'' PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said interacting with mourners at the house of Mohammad Maqbool Bhat, who lost his son and two daughters in the blast, at Malroo near here.
Mufti accompanied by party general secretary Mohammad Dilawar Mir and several other leaders, including District president Srinagar Mohd Ashraf Mir, visited the bereaved family to express condolences to the parents of the deceased children.
Conveying her solidarity to the family, Mehbooba said as a mother she could realise the pain and lasting sense of great loss inflicted on them.
''It was sad that the children in their innocence mistook ammunition for toys as a result of a grave default of government in not securing the area after some recent gunfights,'' she said, adding ''the government knows only to philosophize tragedies resulting from its inefficiency, insensitivity and complete dependence on force without trying to improve its performance or feeling accountable for the death and destruction caused by its policies.''
Mufti urged the government to provide maximum compensation to the family so that it could at least partially rebuild their life.
''Since the death of the children was a direct consequence of government negligence the family should be compensated beyond the normal scale of relief,'' she demanded.
Fourteen-year-old Noor Mohammad and his two younger sisters were killed and her mother and another sister received critical injuries when they fiddled with an explosive device left behind at the scene of a fierce day-long encounter in the area in October last year. The boy had reportedly found the device and took it home, minutes before the explosion on Sunday.
The government has announced an ex-gratia relief of Rs five lakh, a government job on compassionate grounds and a plot for the rehabilitation of the affected family.
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