Kashmir cause for JKLF, mission Jammu for docs

CAUSE AND EFFECT: JKLF chief Yasin Malik in hospital after he was forcibly taken there.

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Jammu/Srinagar: Violent protests in continued in downtown Srinagar, as news of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik's worsening health spread.

Malik has been on hunger strike for the past three days claiming communal forces in Jammu were harassing Muslims.

He had to be forcibly moved to hospital by police after he refused to end the strike.

“Children are not being cared for, people have no medicines here, Muslims are Jammu are suffering due to lack of security. Two policemen were burnt alive because they were Muslims,” a defiant Malik said in the hospital.

In Jammu, doctors who joined the protest with the staff of Acharya Shri Chander medical college going on strike demanding the transfer of land to the Amarnath shrine board.

People also came out defying curfew restrictions at Gangyal and elsewhere in the city and the Jammu-Udhampur highway was blocked by protestors.

But even as the deadlock continues, a ray of hope has emerged. The Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti has finally agreed to share the dais with a four-member panel appointed by Governor N N Vohra, to find a solution to the stand off.

“In case the proposal is positive, we will respond to it. Let me tell you our agitation will continue til a final decision regarding the and issue is taken,” said a Samiti leader.

Vohra was quick to grab the opportunity and rushed to Jammu, offering an olive branch to the Samiti leaders.

He says he is open to accepting any name put up by the Samiti in the reconstituted Amarnath Shrine Board

“They are ready to talk and suggested we constituted a committee and I agreed to it,” Vohra said.

Meanwhile, the Centre too has decided to send a high-powered committee led by Home Minister Shivraj Patil to Jammu on Friday to assess the situation

Hence, there is now not only one but two channels of communications available through which the Sangrash Samiti can be reached out to and brought on the negotiation table.

Though no solution is in sight as of now, the ice may break sooner than latter.