The Centre’s interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma on Sunday reached Pulwama in South Kashmir, considered as the epicentre of terrorism in the valley. Security…
Dineshwar Sharma (Photo: Facebook)
The Centre’s interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma on Sunday reached Pulwama in South Kashmir, considered as the epicentre of terrorism in the valley.
Security was tightened in Pulwama after his arrival, where Sharma began discussions and meetings with delegations, public.
Pulwama is the worst terrorism hit area of the state and Sharma during his meetings with common people might try to find the root cause of unrest.
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Sharma is scheduled to also visit Anantnag during his two-day stay in Kashmir.
Earlier, during his two-day stay in Jammu, Sharma visited the Jagti township to meet the Kashmiri Pandits.
Kashmiri Pandits had fled from Kashmir, when terrorism broke out in the state in 1989.
Sharma also visited Reasi district to meet the migrants of Talwara, who are yet to be rehabilitated after construction of the Salal Hydroelectric project displaced them 30 years ago.
Few hours before Sharma’s landing in Srinagar, terrorists on Saturday abducted an off-duty soldier and brutally murdered him.
Some of the delegations that met him in Jammu before he left for the valley demanded separation of Jammu from the valley by giving it statehood.
The youth complained that they were being discriminated in recruitment for government posts while most jobs were being given to the youth of Kashmir.
A Panchayat Raj delegation accused the government of tinkering with the election process by amending the rules.
On Sunday, terrorists attacked the house of a former militant-turned counter insurgent Kumar Parray in the Bandipura district. Parray was killed by terrorists few years ago.
Kumar’s family and his son Imtiaz Parraya, Congress activist, still resides in the house.
Reports said that terrorists tossed a grenade in the house and fired some shots but no one was injured.
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