By: Musaib Iqbal MK
Srinagar
While condemning the killing of two cops recently at Bandipora, Peoples Conference Chief Sajad Gani Lone while paying tributes to them on twitter said that the decades of violence has only given miseries and orphans with tears to this land.
He was paying tributes to two policemen Mohammad Sultan and Fayaz Ahmad killed in Bandipora on Friday.
On twitter he said, “20 years ago, a policeman from Bandipora was killed alongside my father. My father was killed too. Saw photos of orphaned daughter and son. 20 years. No change in savagery. Remember just because today’s orphan doesn’t belong to you doesn’t mean tomorrow’s orphan won’t belong to you”.
In another tweet he expressed serious concern over the tendency to reduce death to a mere statistic in Kashmir.
“The other policeman killed is from Lalpora Lolab. Fayaz Ahmed Lone. I knew him personally. The biggest threat that we as people face is that death has become a statistic. A good statistic and a bad statistic depending which side of the ideological divide you are on”, he said.