December 28, 2007. There are nine news items on the internet edition of Greater Kashmir. Six are about death (5 about Benazir Bhutto) and one about a kashmiri girl.
Seventh is about a brutal assault on a teenage girl whose face is permanently deformed, eighth news item is about molestation attempt of a girl walking on a Srinagar street, by some men under influence and the last news item is about kashmiri men urging a legislator to plead for the removal of an army bunker from a civilian area.
Each and every news is depressing. Things have started happening in Kashmir that were totally unheard of. People trying to kidnap a girl in the broad day light in Srinagar. Wait a second, where are we headed? Another girl is murdered and a third one is brutally assaulted. Her ten teeth are broken. How can one be so spiteful to do this?
Where is this hatred and violence coming from? Lots of questions and very few answers. We need to introspect seriously to find the cause of this breakdown of our social fabric. It is a social emergency. It is so shocking that it is hard to believe that we are talking about Kashmir. Kashmiris brutalizing other Kashmiris and so much violence against women. It is barbaric. It is horrible. Majority of the Kashmiris will still be shocked when they hear these news. Being shocked is not enough though. This silence is criminal. I am really shocked and dumbfounded thinking about all this. How can one be so brutal? How can someone not freeze when trying to hit a young girl on her face? This is inhuman and definitely not Kashmiri and far far far away from anything that Islam teaches us. Not related to any of these at all.
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