Stop Terrorism

I still remember when the J&K assembly was attacked by fidayeen (suicide) terrorists and sadly my dad was stuck up inside the premises. Thank god he survived the brutal attack but he recalls a note he wrote as he thought that was his last , addressed to us he wrote “ I love you all and I am proud of all of you , the militants are firing indiscriminately , god knows what will happen next , take care of your mom , love you. “. Provedence had somethng else stored for us , he was rescued well in time as the militants had almost reached the adjacent room and killed some officials of the J&K legislature. This is one of the many incidents that we have witnessed and it does scare the hell out of us but even then we continue to live in Kashmir with a constant fear of being attacked every day, every hour, every minute. We just think we are lucky enough to live another day.
Today when whole of India is under high alert after the US , UK and many other countries issued advisories about a possible terrorist attack in India, a bomb found in the heart of the times square would have created a lot of scare in the minds of the Americans . Since me and my family have been a victim of terrorist attack many times I can very well understand the trauma one has to undergo , and knowing that you were just seconds away from death is scary .
I think some people are creating a lot of problems for the Muslims all over the world .This insane US citizen of Pakistani origin arrested for the Times Square bomb case will have many innocent people being subject to suspicion. He should be given the harshest punishment so that a lesson is taught once and for all.
Lets live in the world of peace and tranquility and for that these extremists in the name of Islam, or in that matter any religion have to be brought to justice. But just because some guy with a Muslim name has done an act of terrorism should not form a basis to look at the larger community with suspicion.

State of Lawlessness

Just a month back killing an eleven-day-old infant in the lap of his mother in Baramulla, The Kashmiri separatists calling the practice of stone pelting as their ‘only tool of resistance against the state repression’, today killed a middle-aged civilian by smashing his head with a heavy stone in Batmaloo area in the heart o the Srinagar city. Most of the Kashmiri politicians, including those who have been providing moral and intellectual support to this anarchical form of ‘resistance’, have condemned the killing of a civilian by the unruly street demonstrators.


According to some eye witnesses and the news report, a large group of youngsters, repodetedly in age group of 20-30 years, began disrupting vehicular traffic in Batmaloo in the early morning. It is pertinent to mention that Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani had called for a march to the UNMOGIP headquarters at Sonwar after conclusion of the Friday afternoon prayers. He had even called for a shutdown and had even urged the people not to indulge in stone pelting. Well in a war like situation its very hard to control unruly mob, and this is precisely what happened . Notwithstanding Geelani’s advice, youngsters identifying themselves with his political cause appeared at several places in Srinagar, Baramulla, Sopore and Anantnag townships and engaged in intense stone pelting.

As soon as a passenger minibus, carrying passengers to General Bus Stand of Batmaloo reached close to its destination, youngsters from a lane subjected it to heavy stone pelting. A weighty stone, thrown from a distance of five to ten yards, smashed a windshield and hit one of the commuters straight into his head. As blood began gushing out of his head and he fell unconscious, driver of the bus rushed him quickly to the nearest Hospital for medical treatment.

On finding his condition as “extremely critical”, doctors referred him to the Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura but he breathed his last on his way to the other hospital .
In such a state of anarchy, We can only count how many innocent people will die or how many people will be the victims of such terrorism . It pains, It really does.


Source : ET