Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference (JKPC) president Sajad Gani Lone on Thursday appealed for a relook at the policy adopted by the security agencies in Kashmir.
Claiming that individuals, both young and old, were rounded up by the police in the past 24 hours in Kashmir, Mr. Lone said, “In the name of over-ground workers [OGWs], hundreds of people had been rounded up in the past 24 hours. These are people who may have had a past in militancy but are law-abiding citizens for the last two decades. They are grandfathers, fathers, and livelihood-earners [for their families],” Mr. Lone, who served as a Minister in the previous regime in J&K, said.
He said the prevalent approach of “macro-level punishment has been in practice for the last three decades and has yielded no positive results”.
