SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference's Member of Parliament from Anantnag Hasnain Masoodi on Wednesday rued the lack of awareness in rural areas of south Kashmir and asked the incumbent administration to go for mass awareness campaign to stem out Covid vaccine hesitancy.
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Member of Parliament from Anatnag Hassnain Masoodi released Rs 1 crore under MPLADS to set up an Oxygen production plant with refilling facility at Awantipora.
Masoodi Cautions GoI Against Misreading Calm As Peace, Calls For Peace Building Efforts In J&K
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Member of Parliament from Anantnag (Retd) Justice Hasnain Masoodi on Thursday said that the road to development in Jammu and Kashmir runs through peace, saying the idea of development is farfetched in uncertainty and deep despondency.
While speaking on the Budget 2021-22 in the Lok Sabha, Masoodi stated the two are inextricably linked. He said the GOI’s policy towards Jammu and Kashmir must encapsulate all dimensions with peacebuilding efforts at the heart of it. He said unless a positive environment wasn’t actualized by addressing the political aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, achieving anticipated development goals was unlikely. “The government has misread eerie calm in Jammu and Kashmir as peace, the silence after the abrogation of Articles 370, 35-A is no indicator of peace. The ruling dispensation at New D
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Member of Parliament from Anantnag Justice (retd) Hassnain Masoodi on Thursday sought an impartial investigation into the Hokarsar killings and impressed on the government to clear the ambiguities leading to the killing of three youth.
Masoodi while demanding an impartial probe into the killings said the stated version of the police was far from convincing and ambiguous. “The police version is not convincing and clear-cut; it is an admitted case of police that none of the three youth in their early twenties were in the militant list; two of the youth are admitted not to have been involved in militant activities and said to be OGWs. In the case of a third boy who is twenty years old, it is said that he ‘might have joined militant ranks’. The statement joined together is far from convincing and lends support to the version of families of the slain trio that they were innocent and not involved in any militant activity,” he sai