Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) president Engineer Sheikh AbdulRasheed on Wednesday said the Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Paul Malik’s’apology’ remark was ‘full of contradictions’.
“People have a right to know that what purpose and nationalinterest did the ban on national highway serve expect creating huge trouble tocommon masses and giving them a sense that they are second class citizens,” ErRasheed said, in a statement.
He said that it is unfortunate that putting Kashmiris introuble one way or the other has become the easiest definition of nationalism.
“Why doesn’t Governor apologize on other issues which createhuge anger and anguish among masses but still New Delhi claims to have takenthose colonial steps in the national interest,” Er Rasheed asked.
He said that if Governor wants to convey that he is feelingthe sufferings of masses due to highway ban, he must have the moral courage toapologize for the killing of school teacher Rizwan Pandith and other innocentdeaths and use of force against unarmed Kashmiris.