Killing of teachers cowardly act, must be probed: Grand Mufti
Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 10: Stating that the killings of two school teachers in Srinagar have rattled the people of the majority community in Kashmir, Congress leader Saifuddin Soz today pitched for dialogue with the mainstream parties, including those holding guns to bring the situation back to normalcy, while urging New Delhi not to delay the process any further.
Soz reached Alochi Bagh residence of Supinder Kour here who was killed along with Deepak Chand of Jammu at a School in the Eidgah area of Srinagar earlier to offer condolences to the Sikh community as well as to the family of Kour.
Soz underlined that the common Kashmiri has never believed in violence and has always stood for the people of the minority communities and are equally sad.
Talking to media persons after offering condolences, Soz pitched for immediate dialogue with the leaders of the mainstream parties in J&K and impressed that New Delhi cannot wait any further to start the process.
Soz said that dialogue is the only way out and that New Delhi needs to understand the urgency of initiating dialogue so that the situation takes a turn for the better.
On the issue of several people from the Kashmiri Pandit community leaving Kashmir, Soz said that there is no need to do that and that people need to uphold the decades’ old unity. “People want peace and brotherhood; we need to go for Hindu, Muslim, Sikh unity at any cost,” he said.
On the occasion, Grand Mufi of J&K Mufti Nasir Ul Islam who had also reached Alochi Bagh to offer his condolences termed the killing of two teachers in Srinagar as gruesome and cowardly.
He said that holding any particular community responsible for the killings is unjustified even as he demanded an immediate probe into the matter to ascertain the facts.
The Grand Mufti said that the recent incidents of violence have punctured the claims of the Government which has been stating that the situation across J&K has improved post-August 5, 2019.
“I met with the representative of the Sikh community and I have told them that the people from the majority community stand by them in this hour of grief,” he said.
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