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| Can Cm deny entry to Amnesty International ? | | Shun this `baneful’ practice | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 12: Kashmir may soon become out of bounds for Kashmir Committee chairman, Ram Jethmalani. This is what the informed sources have revealed. If it actually happens then the noted lawyer will be the second person to face the ban. Earlier the government barred Delhi based human rights defender, Gautam Navlakha from entering Srinagar.
Like father like son. Omar Abdullah has falsified the adage. His father Dr Farooq Abdullah never restrained anybody from entering Kashmir even when militancy was at its peak. Omar is more like his `great’ grandfather. Sher-e-Kashmir denied entry to some persons and also exiled people.
When RSS ideologue Shyama Prasad Mukherjee intended to visit Kashmir without a permit, Sher-e-Kashmir arrested him. The RSS leader died in custody. But then Mukherjee sought Jammu Kashmir’s greater integration with India. Sher-e-Kashmir was also pursuing the same goal. He, however, wanted to convey to the world that nobody could visit Kashmir without his permission. Shayama Prasad’s death became one of the reasons for Sher-e-Kashmir’s arrest in 1953.
Omar is banning people for different reasons. He perceives a threat to `peace’ which, according to him, has been restored to the conflict torn valley with great difficulty. Surprisingly RamJethmalani did not question state’s relation with New Delhi. He only criticized the government for `letting loose a reign of terror’. Well criticizing a government is a constitutionally guaranteed right and cannot be taken away. The Amnesty International team that released the report on Public Safety Act (PSA) recently was more critical of the functioning of the government than Ram. Can Omar Abdullah ban the Amnesty International from entering Kashmir?
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