Are We Going To Succumb To Militants?

As the shutdown over scrapping of Article 370 provisions continued for the 68th day, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has come out with a full-page advertisement in local dailies asking people not to be afraid of terror threats and resume their normal activities.
“Are we going to succumb to militants? For over 70 years now, the people of Jammu and Kashmir have been misled. They have been victims of a vicious campaign and motivated propaganda that has kept them trapped in an endless cycle of terrorism, violence, destruction, and poverty,” the advertisement, published in various dailies of Kashmir, reads.

The Kashmir valley has been witnessing continuous shutdown since August 5 when the Centre revoked the state’s special status under Article 370 and bifurcated it into two Union Territories.

In the ad, the government highlighted how separatists sent their children to “exotic lands” to study, work and earn while instigating common people to push their children into “violence, stone-pelting, and hartals”.

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