Bring Kashmir out of death, destruction: Hakeem Yasin

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR , Mar 29: Chairman People’s Democratic Front (PDF) and former Minister Hakeem Mohammed Yaseen has urged for early efforts to end violence and bloodshed from turmoil hit Jammu and Kashmir.
In a statement issued here, today he said violence due to bullets has taken heavy toll of human lives during over last 30 years thereby inflicting intense pain and miseries on the people irrespective of their caste, creed and religion.
Addressing one day convention of PDF workers here, Hakeem Yaseen said Jammu and Kashmir has been bleeding for over 30 years.
He said announcement of a massive employment package for a large number of educated unemployment youth in various Central Government departments , regularisation of all casual ,need based , contractual and daily rated workers working in various Government departments and public undertaking of Jammu and Kashmir would go a long way to provide big relief to them and remove their alienation from the mainstream.
He said respecting the socio political aspirations of the people was primarily essential to remove the prevailing alienation among the people and restoring their faith and trust in the system of justice and order. He said the people of Jammu and Kashmir have been repeatedly betrayed by the political parties right from1947 which was the root cause of present state of socio political uncertainty in Jammu and Kashmir.
He said people of Jammu and Kashmir , who are peace loving by conviction ,are eagerly yearning for peace but some elements within and outside the country were hell bend to keep Kashmir Valley burning in the flames of violence to satiate their vested political interests. He has made a fervent appeal to the political watch dogs , policy planners and intelligentsia of the country to rise to the occasion to bring the dying Kashmir out of the ongoing naked dance of death and destruction . ” Please have a mercy on the pathetic plight of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and allow us to live in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity , Hakeem Yasmeen added .
He asked the party men to further expand their outreach to the people at gross roots level and isolate those parties who have a habit to exploit emotions of innocent people for satiating their political interests .