AGENCIES / LADAKH
In a controversial remark, Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik today asked militants to stop killing innocent people, including security personnel, and instead rise against “those who have looted the wealth of Kashmir for years”.
“These boys who have picked up guns are killing their own people, they are killing PSOs (personal security officer) and SPOs (special police officers). Why are you killing them? Kill those who have looted the wealth of Kashmir. Have you killed any of them?” Malik said while speaking at a tourism function in Kargil of Ladakh region.
The Governor explained guns have never been the solution to problems. “There was an outfit called LTTE in Sri Lanka and it had support as well but it has also been finished,” he said.
Referring to the situation of Kashmir, Satya Paul Malik said that, Nowadays the situation is peaceful and two yatras are going on smoothly simultaneously, one Amaranth Yatra and the other Hajj and people have no issues and this for the first time in the history of J&K that no call for bandh was given on the arrival of Home Minister to valley and even the Huriyat has requested to bring back the Kashmiri pundits.