A controversial video has surfaced in which a ruling PDP office-bearer tells a group of women in distress to seek help from moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, saying the “people here have lost compassion.”
“Mirwaiz will be better... he will help you. Get some help first so that you can move around. The people here have lost compassion,” PDP general secretary Nizamuddin Bhat told a group of women on Saturday. The women, hailing from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, are married to local Kashmiri youths who had crossed the LoC for arms training but returned to the Valley after the State government announced an amnesty scheme for them.
The women were seeking help from the ruling party office-bearer for rehabilitating them. Mr. Bhat told the women that they should approach the Hurriyat chairman as he runs the Auaqaf Trust or they can also meet the vice-chairman of the government-run Muslim Auqaf Trust.
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“If anyone has employment problems, medical treatment needs... the emergency needs, meet [Mirwaiz] Umar sahib. They run an Auqaf or there is a government-run Muslim Auqaf Trust at zero bridge. Meet the vice chairman,” Mr. Bhat, a former MLA from Bandipora constituency, said.
When contacted, Mr. Bhat told PTI that he told the women to meet the Mirwaiz in his capacity as the head of the Jamia Auqaf Committee.