The court also asked the Jammu and Kashmir Bank to keep open its ATMs and branches so that people can avail the facilities. “Everyone needs to partake in the responsibility of making the situation better”, Singh said.
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While Singh called on Pakistan to change its “behaviour”, he was guarded on talks with separatists.
G.A. Mir, president of state Congress unit stated that there was no point meeting Rajnath Singh saying, “There has not been a single people friendly measure from the state government since the Chief Minister chaired an all party meeting which was attended by us (Congress)”.
Singh, who was accompanied by his Home Secretary and Joint Secretary, asked Pakistan “not to interfere in Kashmir”. The extensive use of force to quell the uprising has killed 50 civilians, including three women, and injured more than 2,000 persons, scores of them on the verge of permanent disabilities.
He said an expert panel would look into the use of pellet guns and offered specialised treatment to the injured.
“If there are differences of opinion, those can be resolved through dialogue”. “Let peace and normalcy restore, we will see with whom we will talk”.
After a brief spell of relative calm, reports of stone pelting were received from many places in the curfew-bound Valley, mostly in Baramulla, Kupwara and Pulwama districts, as clashes continued through the evening.
Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh parried a direct reply to the question whether the government will hold talks with separatists to end unrest in Kashmir.
Sikh organization, Dal Khalsa, and Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam staged demonstrations in Jalandhar and Chennai to express solidarity with the oppressed people of occupied Kashmir and to protest against Indian state terrorism in the territory.
In the parliament Rajnath Singh had said that security forces were instructed to exercise maximum restraint while dealing with the protesters in the Kashmir Valley.
Singh said that GoI has taken decisions as how to engage Kashmiri youth and “CM is in know-how of it”.
A group of Muslim clerics enrolled as paid imams at the government-controlled Muslim Waqf Board were also transported in an ambulance to the Nehru Guest House to meet Mr Singh.
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“We are not for a forcible tie-up with Kashmir but want to build emotional ties”, Rajnath Singh told reporters here, winding up a two-day visit to the restive Kashmir Valley. “Whoever I met, I appealed to them to help in restoration of normalcy”. “If we have come here, we have come with some goal and do something”, he said. He said if a plane is required to airlift patients to Delhi, it will be kept at disposal “to treat all the injured children”. Out of them, four patients have already been shifted to AIIMS where they have been examined and are being treated by specialists at Rajinder Prasad Institute of Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS.
