J&K students association says another Kashmiri shawl seller assaulted

SRINAGAR: J&K Students Association (JKSA) has expressed outrage aft a caller incidental successful which a Kashmiri shawl seller was allegedly assaulted successful Himachal Pradesh, leaving him with fractures and aggregate injuries.Jehangir Ahmad, who has been selling shawls successful Dehra country of Kangra territory for 15 years, was allegedly thrashed, threatened, abused and told to permission the state, JKSA, which has been tracking specified incidents for the past 8 years, said. The relation said this was the 16 specified incidental successful Himachal Pradesh this twelvemonth “targeting Kashmiri traders”.“Ahmad was mercilessly thrashed by fringe elements. He has sustained fractures and aggregate injuries and is undergoing attraction astatine a infirmary successful Himachal Pradesh,” Nasir Khuehami, nationalist convenor of the relation said.

“We impulse the Himachal CM to instrumentality contiguous and decisive action. Such behaviour indispensable not spell unchecked,” Khuehami said.In a related incident, JKSA said they person taken up the substance of alleged harassment of a Kashmiri shawl seller successful Kaithal, Haryana, with the main minister’s office.Khuehami said helium spoke to Rajeev Jaitly, media advisor to the Haryana CM, and requested his contiguous involution successful the matter. helium said Jaitly assured him that “such acts of unit and intimidation against Kashmiri shawl sellers volition not beryllium tolerated astatine immoderate cost”.

National Conference main spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq called for contiguous enactment and a long-term, imperishable solution to specified incidents. “These incidents are profoundly disturbing and unacceptable. The information and dignity of Kashmiris surviving extracurricular Jammu and Kashmir indispensable beryllium ensured astatine each costs,” Sadiq said.