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Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, senior National Conference leader and Indian parliament member from Srinagar, Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, has strongly criticised the BJP-led Indian government\u2019s handling of \u201cnational security\u201d and its treatment of Kashmiri Muslims, calling it a \u201cplaybook of weaponizing fear to hide failures.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, Mehdi, writing in The Indian Express, said that incidents like the Pahalgam attack and the Red Fort blast were grave lapses of national security. He said, \u201cThese add to the long list of security lapses that [occupied] Jammu and Kashmir has seen during the BJP regime, despite big claims of wiping out terrorism and bringing in normalcy\u201d. Such incidents, he said, should trigger accountability, but the government has replaced accountability with suspicion, targeting Kashmiri Muslims across India solely for their identity.<\/p>\n
Mehdi said the Indian Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah repeatedly claim occupied Jammu and Kashmir has been \u201cintegrated\u201d and that development and peace now define the territory. He said, \u201cThey leave no opportunity to insist that the abrogation of Article 370 sowed the seeds of a Naya Kashmir\u201d, adding, \u201cThey have indeed created a Naya Kashmir, in which Kashmiri students, businessmen, and other groups residing across mainland Indian states have turned into targets of hate for crimes they neither committed nor condoned\u201d. He cited attacks on Kashmiri traders in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Delhi by RSS-affiliated groups, and a case where a Kashmiri woman was denied accommodation, noting such discrimination has been normalised.<\/p>\n
He said \u201cnational security\u201d is now used as a pretext to divert attention from intelligence failures, while Kashmiri citizens are treated as permanent suspects. Mehdi emphasized, \u201cIf equality is real, it must extend beyond speeches, slogans, and jumlas. And if the Constitution still governs this country, no person can be reduced to a permanent suspect because of where they come from. Yet this is precisely what is being normalised.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKashmiris are not an internal enemy to be managed, monitored, and mistrusted,\u201d he added. \u201cWe are citizens who are entitled to privacy, liberty, and equality under the law. Anything less is not integration. It is domination. And it is non-negotiable,\u201d Mehdi concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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