The petitioner, lawyer ML Sharma, said both the central government and Jammu and Kashmir are spending money on protecting Hurriyat leaders and it must be stopped as the funds are being misused for anti-India activities. “The government has also spent Rs 21 crore on putting up these separatists in luxury hotels and Rs. 26.43 crore on fuel for them to travel around and spread their anti-India venom”, stated the petition.
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The dual strategy appears to be the government’s approach amid demands for initiating a dialogue process with all stakeholders in the state. They pointed out that while 6,000 civilians have suffered pellet injuries, as many as 5,500 jawans of the security forces were also nursing injuries suffered from the stones.
Members of the Hurriyat Conference ignored individual members of the all-party delegation who tried to talk to them in Srinagar on Sunday.
Kashmiris make a valid criticism when they say that discussions following the massive 2010 disturbances yielded no shade of reform, although numerous ideas concerning the hues of autonomy, as well as specific economic needs of the different regions of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, were discussed through various forums. Kashmir is Pakistan’s “lifeline” and “we shall continue our diplomatic and moral support to the freedom movement at all levels”, Raheel said. You know what happened.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh of the BJP headed the delegation.
Instead of coming forward for talks with members of the all-party delegation, the separatists hardened their stance over their demand for right to self-determination.
However, Geelani refused to meet them and they were turned away from his door. He said he is a Kashmiri not because of Article 370, not because of the special constitutional position in India, but by virtue of certain value system.
A senior government functionary said that there has been “improvement” in the situation in the Valley where 62 people – unofficial estimates put the number at 75 – have lost their lives in clashes between security forces and protesters since the killing of militant commander Burhan Wani on July 8.
Rajnath Singh is reported to have later met some top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, including Ram Madhav, BJP’s pointsman for J&K.
Separatists in Jammu and Kashmir should not be given government funds and facilities, a petition to the Supreme Court said today. In a veiled reference to India, he said Pakistan was aware of conspiracies by “enemies”.
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As a long-term solution, we will have to engage with Pakistan and find a practical, political solution on the lines of what was being worked out between AB Vajpayee and the then Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. Where do we go from here? Yechury and Owaisi said the Home Minister denied that there was a plan to curtail the security provided to separatist leaders.
