Kashmir Centre for Social and Developmental Studies (KCSDS)—a civil society group—has condemned the threat calls to the GK staff in Jammu office and has urged the state government to provide adequate security to the staff .
In a statement a KCSDS spokesperson said, “The hooliganismof the goons has crossed all limits. Kashmiris are being intimidated everywhereand government’s silence over it shows its complicity.”
The spokesperson said. “Secondly the stopping of government advertisements to newspapers about its schemes and programmes meant for public benefit in the J&K is an undeclared embargo on informationbecause these are stopped in the largest circulated papers in English and Urduin the Valley. Both these newspapers have the widest reach not only in printbut more so online which has crossed two million viewership in recent months. We urge thegovernment to immediately release the advertisements to these newspapers,”the spokesperson added.
Referring to the recent order of the Governor’sadministration to ban movement of civilian vehicles on Srinagar-Jammu nationalhighway for two days in a week, the KCSDS spokesperson said, “Kashmir hasalready been turned into a virtual garrison. The road blockade is enforced tofurther strangulate us not only socially, culturally but economically aswell.”