‘People will punish it through votes’ Excelsior Correspondent BATOTE, Sept 20: National Conference President and Member of Parliament from Srinagar Dr. Farooq Abdullah today said that the BJP’s manoeuvres in Jammu and Kashmir have left people in lurch, saying nothing is going to bail them out as the people have made a point to punish them through their votes. This, he said, while addressing a one day convention of block workers, office bearers and functionaries at Batote in district Ramban. Among others, […]
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Shaheena Khan often replays the last conversation she had with her son, Asrar. “I was watching him from the balcony and called him to come have tea,” she recalled. “But he wanted to play another game.”
Asrar, who would have turned 19 this year, was a passionate cricketer. His friends even nicknamed him after Virat Kohli, the captain of India’s national cricket team. In August 2019, he was attacked by half a dozen police officers in riot gear as he played in the street in Srinagar, Kashmir’s largest city.
The day before the attack, the Indian government revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, a Muslim-majority state that had remained a disputed territory, with the power to make its own laws, since 1947. Thousands of troops entered the region, political and religious leaders were detained and all lines of communication to the outside world were blocked.
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