Sehrai anguished over mysterious blast in Pulwama School | KNO

Kashmir News Observer (KNO)

Srinagar, February 14 (KNO) : Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Chairman, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai Thursday expressed deepest pain and grief over the mysterious explosion in a Pulwama school that caused severe injuries to 28 children and strongly condemned the assault on Kashmiri students in Chattisgarh. Sehrai as per a statement issued to KNO expressed heartfelt sympathy and solidarity with the parents whose children have sustained grievous injuries in the incidents. He said the children and students who are the ‘worst sufferers’ of conflict and prime victims of violence have been exposed to different kinds of vulnerabilities in conflict-ridden Kashmir. “They have not only suffered direct injuries with bullets, with pellet guns, with tear gas shells but they have been witnessed to all the gory brutalities by forces Kashmir,’” he said. Sehrai added the children of this lawless land are being arrested and harassed to the level that it has traumatized their psyche. He said that due to the prevailing political instability and lingering Kashmir dispute children here have grown up in the midst of abductions, encounters, bomb blasts, stone pelting and tear-gas shelling. “These children who are facing the brunt of this unresolved conflict have lost their childhood, their innocence and will continue to be victimized until the resolution of Kashmir issue is not settled down,” he said. He added to take the children out from the wrath of this deadly conflict, there is a prime need to look seriously into this burning issue as early as possible, the sooner the better.(KNO)