Vakil asks Mehbooba to check actions of security forces or resign

Demands judicial probe against the culprits of crime

Says how long Kashmiri youth will vanish in thin air like this

SRINAGAR: President Jammu and Kashmir Bachao Tehreek and former minister Abdul Gani Vakil Monday asked Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti check these repeated actions of security forces, failing which she should resign on moral grounds.

In a statement issued here, Mr Vakil said killing of civilians is not acceptable in any case and how long with the Kashmiri youth continue to vanish in thin air like this. “Everybody in Kashmir is not a militant. We have already lost three generations to the conflict. How long will all this continue. Security forces are repeating such actions. All such forces should be checking failing which the Chief Minister has no moral right to head the government in which the people have lost the sense of security,” he said,

Mr Vakil while demanding judicial probe into the killings said condemnations are not enough on such instead. A human life has a value. There is nothing more than a life. How long will this mayhem continue. Every other day a budding flower is plucked from a garden,” he said.

Mr Vakil said every civilian killing is painful, notwithstanding how erroneously made. He said every such civilian killing has a tendency of vitiating the peaceful atmosphere.

“I am pained and emotionally amputated with this fresh incident. I have no words to condemn it. No circumstances can justify these civilian killings. The law enforcing agencies are not learning any lessons from previous such experiences,” he said.

The former minister said that such “unwarranted killings” have only inflamed the situation in the past and if such type of incidents are repeated again and again, there is apprehension that situation in the valley may turn ugly again.

“Peace should be given a chance to prevail…” he said,

Mr Vakil expressed his solidarity with the bereaved families, and reiterated his demand that a judicial enquiry be ordered so that the truth comes to the fore and guilty and culprits of this crime are booked and brought to justice.