“The National Conference has always vacillated between dialogue and anti dialogue, Pakistan and anti Pakistan policy and it is the compulsion of this confused policy that they have started the blame game to hide their failure, inability and ineptness to govern,” Tariq Hamid Qarra, a senior PDP member said while addressing a press conference, here.
He was responding to the allegation of the NC that PDP was funding the stone pelting in Srinagar.
“The stone pelting is the result of growing alienation and discontent among the youth against the government which had been shown many dreams during election campaign,” he said.
Qarra claimed that some of the stone-palters arrested by police turned out to be the very workers of the NC. “Does NC workers than take money from PDP against their own party?” Qarra asked.
Blaming the ruling coalition partner of following the policy right from 1947, Qarra said when the party was anti-Pakistan, those people who would attempt to exercise their democratic rights would be charged by NC of being Pakistani agents and when it was against India it would label its opponents as IB agents.
Qarra said instead of searching for “credible and fair” answers to the growing discontent and alienation among the youth, NC was blaming PDP for present unrest in the valley.
“Why it happens that whenever the NC comes in government, people feel insecure, crack downs resume and excesses against people increase,” Qarra said.
Qarra said the present unrest in valley was because of National Conference’s “misadventure” of sabotaging the resolution of Kashmir dispute. “People are alienated because they feel NC is sabotaging the resolution of Kashmir issue,” he said.
“When PDP was in power, we had tried to address the alienation and discontent on the priority basis,” he added.
PDP, he said, had always been for unconditional dialogue with everyone.
The former minister in PDP led coalition government also asserted that the indiscipline in armed forces has been institutionalized and “a new trend has been started from January this year in Kashmir whereby teenagers are pointedly being targeted.”
“The recent killings in Kashmir show that indiscipline in armed forces has been institutionalized,” he added.
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