The Shia-Suni Coordination Committee (SSCC) Tuesday appealed the people of Kashmir to call off the protests and to give a chance to the administration and police to conduct a thorough probe into the rape of a three-year-old girl in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district.
The SSCC also said that gruesome act was a blot on theentire Kashmiri society irrespective of any particular community or a sect andthat the administration must conduct the enquiry on fast-track basis so thatculprit is brought to book without any delay.
The meeting of SSCC was convened by its head Mirwaiz UmarFarooq to deliberate on the barbaric incident that has left the conscience ofevery Kashmiri shaken. Due to ill health, Mirwaiz couldn’t attend the meet.
Other participants, who attended the meeting, put forththeir suggestions as to how the sectarian brotherhood can be kept intact sothat efforts aimed to trigger a sectarian frenzy are countered with full might.”We discussed the rape of a three-year-old child and all the members termed itas a blot on the Kashmiri society as whole and not just for a particularcommunity or a group. We passed a five-point resolution after the thoroughconsultations over the issue,” Itehadul Muslimeen chief, Moulana Masroor AbbasAnsari told Greater Kashmir.
According to the resolution, the SSCC appealed the people ofKashmir to remain patient and maintain calm. “We appeal the people to call offthe protests and to create a peaceful atmosphere so that investigations aretaken to its logical end,” the SSCC resolution read. It, however, said that anysort of “callousness or lackadaisical” approach if adopted by theadministration or the police, would lead to stiff resistance from people.
The resolution urged the state administration to conduct theprobe on fast track basis and to ensure that the perpetrator gets “exemplarypunishment.”
The resolution stated that the rape of three-year-old was ablot on the entire humanity and society of Kashmir collectively and not justfor any particular group or a community as the “impression is being created bysome elements.”
The SSCC membersexpressed sympathy and solidarity with the victim’s family and prayed for herspeedy recovery.
The prominent members who attended the meetingincluded, Karwan-e-Islami patron MoulanaGhulam Rasool Hami, Kashmir’s GrandMufti, Nasirul-Islam, Anjuman-e-Himayat-ul-Islam vice chairman Moulana Khursheed AhmedQanoongo, Moulana Ghulam Rasool Noori ofAhlibait Foundation, representative ofMirwaiz Umar Farooq, Ghulam Nabi, Perawan-e-Vilayat head Moulana Sibti MuhammadShabir Kumi, Mujama Islami Kashmir Ghulam Muhammad Gulzar, representative ofAnjuman-e-Share Shian Aga Syed Yousuf Rizvi, Awami Action Committee youthleader Mushtaq Sufi and many others.