Srinagar: Condemning brutal killing of Tawseef Ahmad Wani in Pulwama at the hands of armed forces, lawmaker Er Rasheed on Thursday said that unionist political parties cannot run away from their failure to protect the lives and the properties of Kashmiris.
Rasheed is an MLA representing Langate assembly segment in J&K Legislature. He also heads Awami Ittehad Party (AIP).
“Security forces have no control of the political establishment and opposition has also miserably failed to play its role,” he said in a statement.
Slain Tawseef Ahmad Wani
Tawseef, in his early twenties, was shot dead by armed forces when hundreds of people were clashing with the forces in Kakpora area of Pulwama today. Three Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants died fighting forces in an encounter in New Colony Kakpora today.
Tawseef was amongst thousands of civilians who were to participate in the funeral of slain LeT trio in Kakpora.
“The main stream parties have done nothing except trying to dilute the issue and helping New Delhi in consuming time to avoid the solution,” he said, “let the main stream parties not forget that once they jumped into elections in 1996 it gave New Delhi a chance to mislead world community.”
“However,” he added, “had NC and PDP the guts and sincerity to help Kashmiris they would have done enough and with a success. May one ask Farooq Abdullah who had offered to even join Hurriyat (Conference) during his Lok Sabha election campaign, why didn’t he speak even a word on NIA raids.”
“The day he became member of parliament by securing just few votes, he started his old tradition of forgetting things and helping New Delhi,” Rasheed observed. “Main stream parties must force New Delhi to stop atrocities as it is the least they are capable to do, but for the want of sincerity and expecting New Delhi to get annoyed they are not moving even an inch than the traditional politics of blaming each other.”
National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided over two dozen places in Srinagar, Jammu, Delhi and NCR searching houses of Hurriyat Conference leaders as well as Kashmiri traders.
Langate lawmaker Er Rasheed speaking in J&K Legislative Assembly on June 17, 2017. (FPK Photo/Vikar Syed)
The NIA said that it was investigating Hawala funding.
During his campaigning for Srinagar Lok Sabha by-polls, the National Conference (NC) patron, Dr Farooq Abdullah, had asked Hurriyat Conference leaders to continue with their fight “as he supported them”.
