Ordinary Kashmiris Hit By Successive Developments

Striking a note of empathy, especially for the youth, he repeated that the youth and their parents were let down by the developments that hurt Kashmir’s prospects. Kashmir’s turbulent developments have devastated the common citizens of the Valley, said N.N. Vohra, former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, at an event organized by the Institute of Social Sciences in New Delhi on Monday.

The former bureaucrat sympathized with the plight of the Kashmiri masses who have suffered because of military actions, cross-border terrorism and prolonged spells of curfew, the latest of which began on August 5. “I can say that the life of the ordinary Kashmiris in the Valley particularly, and more recently elsewhere in the State, have been shattered by successive developments over a period of time,” said Mr. Vohra, who served as Governor of Jammu and Kashmir between 2008 and 2018. Satya Pal Malik has replaced him.