SRINAGAR: An eligible unemployed member of each "unacknowledged" Kashmiri household that lost someone to terrorist bullets over the past three decades will get a govt job within 30 days, J&K lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha promised Sunday during an outreach in south Kashmir’s Anantnag involving over 80 such families.
Sinha’s directive to deputy commissioners to process pending job applications on priority and register FIRs in “buried” cases of Kashmiri civilians being targeted is part of a broader initiative to reshape the narrative around J&K’s 40,000-odd casualties in violence since Pakistan-backed terrorism turned the Valley into a killing field.
"It’s shocking that prior to 2019, terrorists’ funeral processions were allowed while thousands of common Kashmiris killed by terrorists remained unacknowledged," Sinha said at the event, organised by Save Youth, Save Future Foundation. “For years, truth was kept hidden under pressure from the terror ecosystem.”
He said cases against the perpetrators of such killings would be pursued to their logical end, "whether they are in Kashmir or hiding in Pakistan".
Sinha also announced that the Union govt would reclaim properties belonging to victims' families that had been encroached upon by "terrorist sympathisers or separatist elements".
"It’s a historic step to finally recognise and honour the thousands of innocent civilians in Kashmir who were brutally killed by Pakistani terrorists. For decades, these families were marginalised. Justice was denied. Their pain was ignored, their stories untold, and the truth deliberately suppressed. Hundreds of families have gained strength and support to say their loved ones were killed by Pakistani terrorists," he said.
Families from Anantnag, Kulgam and Shopian districts, where dozens of terrorist attacks on security forces and civilians have been reported over the years, attended the event.
Besides offering jobs to eligible applicants, the lieutenant governor assured financial assistance and expert handholding to those wanting to start businesses.
A Raj Bhavan statement said many families spoke to the lieutenant governor about “decades of false propaganda and Pakistan's role in fuelling terrorism in the Kashmir Valley”.
Sinha’s directive to deputy commissioners to process pending job applications on priority and register FIRs in “buried” cases of Kashmiri civilians being targeted is part of a broader initiative to reshape the narrative around J&K’s 40,000-odd casualties in violence since Pakistan-backed terrorism turned the Valley into a killing field.
"It’s shocking that prior to 2019, terrorists’ funeral processions were allowed while thousands of common Kashmiris killed by terrorists remained unacknowledged," Sinha said at the event, organised by Save Youth, Save Future Foundation. “For years, truth was kept hidden under pressure from the terror ecosystem.”
He said cases against the perpetrators of such killings would be pursued to their logical end, "whether they are in Kashmir or hiding in Pakistan".
Sinha also announced that the Union govt would reclaim properties belonging to victims' families that had been encroached upon by "terrorist sympathisers or separatist elements".
"It’s a historic step to finally recognise and honour the thousands of innocent civilians in Kashmir who were brutally killed by Pakistani terrorists. For decades, these families were marginalised. Justice was denied. Their pain was ignored, their stories untold, and the truth deliberately suppressed. Hundreds of families have gained strength and support to say their loved ones were killed by Pakistani terrorists," he said.
Families from Anantnag, Kulgam and Shopian districts, where dozens of terrorist attacks on security forces and civilians have been reported over the years, attended the event.
Besides offering jobs to eligible applicants, the lieutenant governor assured financial assistance and expert handholding to those wanting to start businesses.
A Raj Bhavan statement said many families spoke to the lieutenant governor about “decades of false propaganda and Pakistan's role in fuelling terrorism in the Kashmir Valley”.
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