By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
Srinagar: A Civil society group- Kashmir Center for Social & Development Studies (KCSDS) on Sunday, March 25 said that it is deeply distressed at the “unmitigated spilling of human blood within the State of Jammu & Kashmir and on both sides of the LOC”.
“Indiscriminate heart-rending killings of civilians, including women and children young boys who pick up guns to fight, police personnel and soldiers on both sides of the LoC and within the State has agonized us a great deal,” KCSDS Chairperson Hameeda Nayeem said in a statement.
“Apart from horrendous deaths, the civilians within the State and on both sides of the LoC suffer crippling injuries and irreparable damage to their properties and psychological trauma due to heavy exchange of fire on a routine basis.”
The civil society group has asked the Indian and Pakistani government to put a stop to ceasefire violations.
“We fervently appeal to all the parties to promote an immediate Ceasefire within the State and on the LOC. Saving human life must be the paramount concern and duty to start with, followed by a sincere and serious effort to resolve the problem, like civilized human beings, over the table,” she said and added that spilling of human blood is no answer to the raging Kashmir dispute.
She further said that the non-resolution is causing colossal misery all around, not only to the people of the State but to the entire subcontinent and threatening the security and stability of the entire region.
“It is high time that sanity is restored to relations between India and Pakistan. Humanity and morality must override narrow considerations of politics and ideology. Both the governments must prioritize the protection of human life, which is the primary duty of any govt and take appropriate measures to save and honour it without succumbing to the narrow, inhuman considerations of religion, ethnicity, nationality or language,” she added