Goebbels of Kashmir
Double standards and human-right violations
P.S.A:Public Scrutiny Act
Joseph Goebbels was the right hand man of Adolf Hitler during the WWII and was seen as the silver tongue and an expert in preaching propaganda and lies to the people to serve the interests of the Third Reich..Similar are the scenes of Kashmir these days but with not one but scores of such Goebbels...
P.S.A:Public Scrutiny Act
Joseph Goebbels was the right hand man of Adolf Hitler during the WWII and was seen as the silver tongue and an expert in preaching propaganda and lies to the people to serve the interests of the Third Reich..Similar are the scenes of Kashmir these days but with not one but scores of such Goebbels...
Height of vindictive attitude was crossed by the current J&k government under the vanguard of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah when Faizan Hakeem, a 14 year old boy of Islamabad was booked under the draconian act of PSA on the 22nd of the past month for his alleged participation in the unrest in the summer of 2010 where the legal age for booking anyone under this infamous act is at least 18...But this mêlée of vindictiveness didn’t end here,; when the parents tried to clarify the age of the booked Faizan by showing his school record which articulates him being a part of the school for the past 8 years and his age as mere 14 years; our very capable Chief Minister rubbished the proof of infancy as forged , fake and doctored..But when the issue started gathering much attention of the media and people started asking question directly to the authorities and also the Chief Minister on the micro-blogging site TWITTER, the CM rebutted by saying the he has seen many fake certificates and the only way of finding any substantial grounds of infancy of the booked persons is a medical test......JOKE!
But I at some level of appreciation I concur with Chief Minister on the grounds of fake D.O.b. because if a prominent figure of I.G of Kashmir (Farooq Ahmad) can tweak and fiddle with his age under the vigil of the government then why can’t Faizan? But the authorities at that time didn’t propose a medical test for the I.G. Kashmir ... Maybe ‘Yeh andar ki baat hai’....
It is one thing arresting somebody under PSA for injecting troubles but it is a whole differet when you arrest a 14 yr old minor , lock him up with hardened criminals and deny his right of freedom on grounds of denial and vague reasoning...It is a shame that a child is locked up in a jail when he is supposed to join his schools tomorrow and the icing on the cake is that the authorities and saviours of law and order are the ones who made sure that there was no way out for Faizan Hakeem ....
Similar cases of people being detained under the act have been observed where the alleged perpetrator has been acquitted on the gist of false/vague grounds, fraudulent dossiers , infancy or simply ‘INNOCENCE’....A prominent news-paper GREATER-KASHMIR quoted one of the cause of such fraudulent cases given by Advocate Mir Shafaqat Hasnanin as “non application of mind by the detaining authorities......”By this it is made completely clear that one day or the other justice will be served to Faizam Hakeem...But the real question which remains there is what does the Government gain by performing this feat of brainlessness ...It has further reduced their long lost credibility and added fuel to the already raging inferno of anger and hatred among the people...Such acts of ‘non-application of mind’ makes the policy makers and leaders look like hypocrites who boast and tout claims of reducing alienation and hatred from the hearts of people, such stunts by the Government makes their claims otiose , superficial , superfluous and redundant....
Many after reading this blog may get the idea of how the PSA is being handled in the Valley and what its repercussions and ramifications could be ...How would the life of Faizan be after having a taste of the harshest realities on planet ...May God grant him the strength to fight this..
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