Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 4: Former minister and veteran Congress leader, Prof Saifuddin Soz today criticised Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for her statement on Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
In a press statement here Soz said he had strongly protested against AFSPA in the Parliament during 1990. He said Setharaman’s statement on AFSPA saying that it was needed by the forces was going to worsen the situation in Kashmir. The present Central Govt is completely unprepared to take notice of the realities in Kashmir.
“I wish Sitharaman had time to understand the death and destruction that has been caused by this un-civilized and draconian law – AFSPA, in Kashmir, all these years, ‘besides, deepening the alienation of Kashmiris with the Union of India,” Soz maintained.
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