Minorities prey to psychosomatic in Valley owing to anonymous letters

Dozen of families migrate to Jammu so far

                                       PS Bali

Jammu, August 21

The fear of psychosis is the biggest fear of human, he can endure everything but he can’t resist psychological vandalism. People in general and minorities in particular are easy recipients to this fear and are preyed easily without many efforts.

In the ongoing turmoil in Kashmir from past two months, the fear of psychosis is escalating over million of minorities dwelling in Kashmir, where they have been harassed and humiliated by handful of miscreants from majority community, compelling them for evacuation.

The communal facade came to lime light at that time when some miscreants from majority community threw anonymous letters in the Gurudwara’s aiming to create panic among minorities, the letter was so dreadful that it made some minority families to pull up socks and migrate to Jammu.

The All Party Sikh Coordination Committee (ASCC) has alleged that several community members have received these letters.

The incident of threatening is not committed only once it was repeated thrice and more in different areas, which made minorities to think for their lives.

According to some migrated minority members in Jammu, the atmosphere of valley is altogether different and it contradicts its adage of century’s long brotherhood and communal harmony. They said that during late nights, youth from the area pelt stones on their shelters and shout Pro-Islamic slogans which make them prey to psychosomatic.

Though a delegation of minorities has put forth this incident before, Hurriyat hawk, Syed Ali Shah Geelani and other separatist figures in Valley but the response from their side was nothing more than mere eye wash, “this is our duty to save minorities dwelling in Kashmir as Islam teaches, this is handiwork of armed forces to create rift between two communities,” these were the words of Geelani, who some days back expressed distress over the Tral incident were some crooks chopped off hair  of Sikh boy and in his statement he has reassured Sikhs, saying they should not feel threatened and ignore the "fake letters". He has assured the community that nobody would force them to join the protests.

Much before this the Dukhtaraan-e-Millat chairperson and radical separatist leader, Asiya Andrabi expressed disappointed over the reports that two delegations of the Hindus and the Sikhs had called on the Hurriyat (G) Chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and "wept bitterly" over the sense of their insecurity, Dukhtaraan chief said that it had hurt the sentiments of the majority community in Kashmir.

But in her next edition of statement she said that we are not empowered to provide safety to minorities, “how could we extend protection to minorities when we are ourselves being oppressed by Indian forces”.

Although, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who has assured that every effort, would be made to provide adequate protection to Sikhs in the valley, seems to be bleak as one by one dozen of families had been migrated so far.

Meanwhile this incident was also up roared in both houses of Parliament, where the government said that they were committed to the safety of the Sikhs in Kashmir Valley where some Sikh families have reportedly received anonymous letters from extremists asking them to either embrace Islam or pack up.

Amid hollow claims of government, forged sympathies of separatists and unprecedented threatening letters, the Sikhs are at the grinding end and are raising question whether government is serious to provide them security or they have to leave like exodus of Pandits in 1990.

It is pertinent to mention here that with over 60,000 members, Sikh community is the single largest minority group in the Valley after Hindus fled in the early 1990s when the armed separatist war backed by Pakistan erupted in Jammu and Kashmir.