Srinagar Under Siege Before Elections

This was long time in coming … after all how could the sepratist continue the lie about elections … they tried their best to stop people from voting but this time it did not work … why? … since 1989 this is the first time the militants did not oppose the elections, hence the high turnout … and it goes to show that the people in Kashmir belive in elections …hope good sense previals on sepratist leadership and they continue to “hear” what people of Kashmir as saying

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

He said, “We have to accept that people did not respond to the boycott call of the Hurriyat Conference, although we cannot ignore the fact that separatists were either put in jail, or if it was someone like me, placed under house arrest

He said although his party was not a political party, it got carried away “with the mood we saw in the summer, when the ‘azadi’ movement erupted after the Amarnath controversy