Party asks Govt to shifted injured youth outside state
Jammu: To express their anger over unabated using of pellet and pepper guns on innocent people of Kashmir, members of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today created uproar in the Legislative Assembly and later staged a walkout.
According to a statement issued to KNS, PDP members were demanding ban on the use of such non-lethal weapons and shifting of injured youth to outside the State for advance treatment. As the House assembled this morning, members of PDP were on their feet. They drew attention of the government toward conditions of those youth who received severe injuries in brutal use of pellet guns in Shopian area.
Raising the issue, PDP Legislature Party leader Mehbooba Mufti said that state government was using pellet guns and pepper guns against civilian protestors, an act she said left many youth deprived of their vision. Mehbooba said the use of these weapons at protests had caused loss and impairment of vision in the Kashmir Valley and people had to pay heavily for medical treatment.
“These poor families have to take their children, who have become victims of pellet guns and pepper guns used by the security forces, to Amritsar and other places outside the state for treatment,” she said. These children belong to poor families who cannot afford costly treatment.
She demanded an immediate stop to the use of such weapons against civilian protestors. She also demanded financial assistance from the state government to the victims. PDP members were demanding answer from government but on no avail. No express their anger over causal approach being adopted by the government against in this inhuman act, PDP members staged a walkout.
Later terming using of pellet guns as inhuman and cruel, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today demanded total ban on use of such “non lethal” weapons in Kashmir, which have injured hundreds of youth. Spokesman of PDP said that Tariq, Ghulam Mohiuddin, Mohammad Ashraf, Umer Nabi have lost their sight due to pellet guns.
He said that hundreds of youth have been injured by the use of this weapons which have been projected as non lethal. He said that score of youth have lost their sights but they are not approach hospitals due to the fear of arrest. PDP spokesman demanded that four youth injured in pellet guns should be immediately shifted outside the state for advance medical treatment and their treatment expenditure must be bear by the government.
The spokesman accused the state government of resorting to inhumane tactics in which many youth were targeted by pepper guns and pellets guns which have been projected as non lethal weapons. The party has called an immediate end to the savage treatment of peaceful protests that has so far caused heavy civilian causality. PDP regretted that in the name of using non lethal weapon, Omar Abdullah government has turned Jammu and Kashmir into a laboratory to test use of such weapons. (KNS)