Farooq’s “thief” remark insulting: Mirwaiz

Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 3: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Omar Farooq today termed as “insulting and disgraceful” the remarks of National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah that Kashmiris are biggest thieves while referring to electricity theft in Kashmir.
HC spokesman said that those who have plundered the resources of the State for the sake of power and personal luxury and pleasure are now calling Kashmiris as thieves.
The spokesman said before doing so Farooq Abdullah should have looked into his own doings where he would come to know to about the damage he and his party has done to the people of Kashmir politically, economically and socially.
The spokesman said that before leveling charges on the common people of Kashmir Farooq Abdullah should know that as per the reports published in media Government departments, main stream political party offices, including Nawai-e-Subh, the head office of National Conference, high Government functionaries and departments are the biggest defaulters of payment of electricity bills.
“Leveling baseless allegations against the Kashmiri people is just a ploy motivated to cover up the large scale corruption of preset rulers and to divert the attention from the misgovernance and atrocities committed by these people on the Kashmiri,” he said.