Union Home Minister gave a clear and strong statement in Parliament that Pakistani social media had floated the programme of misleading Kashmiri youth by concocting and fabricating false and baseless stories. Pakistan is misusing social media to brainwash the youth in Kashmir and prepare them for anti social and anti-India activities. The new strategy adopted by terrorist outfits is that they use What’sApp and other media channels to inform youth through mobile telephonic message to come out and obstruct the security forces from conducting anti terrorist operations. The people from nearby villages come out in large numbers and begin pelting stones on security forces and thus provide an escape route to the holed up militants. Security forces are reluctant to open fire on the crowds who assemble to obstruct the operation. Security forces do not want misguided civilians to get killed. The Home Minister assured the house that the Government was seized of this situation and the security forces are handling the situation as they should.
Unleashing propaganda against any country through social media is against international law. A case can be made out of it with visuals and other evidences if India decided to approach the UN Security Council with a complaint against Pakistan. However, at home level the Government of the State and the Centre, both have taken various measures to provide employment to unemployed youth and motivate them for running small business that can provide them livelihood without depending on Government jobs. Self employment is the right answer to unemployment. At the same time scholarships and other facilities are provided to the Kashmiri youth including those who have sought admission in educational institutions outside the State. The elected representatives of people in Kashmir have the responsibility of going to their constituencies and talking to the youth and making them understand the benefits of a democratic dispensation and how it can be strengthened. Though the Chief Minister did issue instructions to her party colleagues at all levels to interact with the people yet satisfactory results of such enterprise are still awaited. More than anybody else the security forces personnel know that loss of life is in reality loss to the country and the nation. That is why they usually appeal the youth to try to understand what they are doing by resorting to subversive activities. The Government is determined to provide whatever facilities it can to the youth who intend to work for their personal and social improvement. But violence is not the right instrument and will not be tolerated.
With all said and done, the fact of the matter is that law and order have to be maintained in the State at any cost if we mean that our developmental programme should succeed. The use of force is the last resort and people ought to understand that no security force is happy with firing the tear gas shells at the demonstrating crowds. But when things cross the limit, reaction is inevitable.
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