KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
Coming events have started casting their shadow in restive Kashmir at the moment. The pattern in killings and some covert developments in government have already struck an uncanny resemblance between 2010-type state of affairs and the present grim situation prevailing in Kashmir.
The killings spree—that started in 2010 after cops burst skull of a school boy, Tufail Mattoo on June 11 that year—saw the then chief minister Omar Abdullah taking a chopper ride from Gupkar to SKIMS. Then, the peaked tensions on Kashmir streets didn’t encourage Omar Abdullah to take the surface route to reach the hospital where he faced angry crowd.
Six years after, the killing spree restarted in Kashmir with the killing of the face of Kashmir’s new age militancy, Burhan Wani, have already made people drawing parallels between Now and Then.
But one development that happened in power centre has a direct bearing on 2010. Akin to Omar Abdullah, a chopper took a senior minister holidaying in Pahalgam to Srinagar to attend an important, hurriedly-convened cabinet meeting.
The minister is now back to Secretariat, attending the cabinet meeting. Sensing the prevailing tensions in Valley amid ceaseless bloodletting, the ministers were seen driving in haste to the Secretariat sans playing their signature sirens.
