GOOD JOB BY OMAR ABDULLAH

Disruption not allowed

Sending New Delhi-based writer and so-called rights activist, Gautam Navlakha, back to New Delhi from Srinagar airport under the orders of the State government is fully justified. Pre-empting any action that might lead to disruption of peace in the valley is the first and foremost duty of the government. The Chief Minister is right in saying that he has much wider responsibility to discharge and he cannot be answerable to every so-called human rights activist. Sending Gautam Navlakha back from the Srinagar airport was decided on the basis of input from concerned sources at the Home Ministry and state's own findings. We have many writers and commentators these days claiming expertise on Kashmir and under the cover of human rights activists they have been supporting the cause of separatists. The state cannot tolerate people coming from outside and then stoking flames of unrest. They cannot be allowed to fabricate stories and thus vitiate the atmosphere in the state created with great effort and fortitude. It is the role of these pretentious human rights activists that has brought lot of misery to the state and suffering to her people. For three consecutive summers, the time when tourism is at its prime, the valley has seen turmoil and unrest resulting in huge economic losses to the state besides impoverishment of her people. This year all precautions are taken not to allow repetition of the practice of last three years. As such writers like Gautam who have taken a fancy of projecting the subversive acts of militants and separatists as violation of their human rights should have no business to be in the valley and propagate their canard