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Omar to raise repeal of AFSPA at CMs' meet
Saturday April 14, 2012 08:02:26 PM,
IANS
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Jammu:
Enthused by the drastic decline in militancy and an all- pervasive
upbeat mood in the state, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah is determined to raise the issue of repeal of AFSPA from
some areas in the state at the chief ministers' meet in New Delhi
Monday, sources close to him said.
Omar Abdullah is set to tell the central government at the CMs'
meet on internal security that, in the matter of repealing the
Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from some parts of the
state, the goalposts "should not be shifted all the time whenever
the issue is raised", the sources said.
The AFSPA offers legal immunity to the security forces in their
counter-terrorism operations.
Kashmir Valley is under AFSPA since 1990 along with a swathe of
the border belt along the Line of Control, in Rajouri and Poonch
districts of Jammu region, while the rest of Jammu region was
brought under the Act in 2001.
"AFSPA is not for maintaining law and order, it's to fight
militancy... and in those areas where militants have packed their
bags and gone home, the special powers must go" -- the chief
minister would argue, according to the sources.
Omar had promised in the state assembly during the budget session,
which concluded on April 4, that AFSPA will go before he completes
his tenure of six years and "some concrete steps would get
underway this year itself".
The chief minister was expected to tell the central government
that this was an idea whose time had come -- as the separatists
are talking of participating in elections and the army has
strengthened its counter-infiltration grid, and the man on the
street wants to be left alone without the fear of the men in olive
green looking over everywhere all the time, the sources added.
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