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ISLAMABAD, (APP): Indian armed forces’ personnel
attacked a Kashmiri journalist in Bijbehara town due to
publication of his article which exposed the puppet Chief
Minister, Mehbooba Mufti’s doublespeak.
According to KMS, the author, Murtaza Shibli, in a statement
said that the attack was carried out as an act of revenge for his
article. “A day after I published an article dissecting (puppet)
Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s display of crocodile tears for the
families of those slain by her own forces, an unruly group of
Police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) attacked our
locality,” Shibli said.
“Few hours after my story was published, I heard from some
sources that the local unit of the ruling People’s Democratic
Party (PDP) headed by Mufti was enraged and wanted revenge. Mufti,
like her father, is very concerned about her public image and has
invested millions to circulate falsehoods and manipulations
through an army of media consultants, PDP-affiliated newspapers
and journalists,” he added.
“Last evening, when I went for a usual stroll down the main
road and was half way towards the old-town, several of my well-
wishers and friends advised me to go home early as PDP was
planning to attack me, because my expose of Mehbooba Mufti had
caused them a deep embarrassment. I was even told by a source that
Mufti’s cousin and a provincial party leader, Sajjad Mufti, had
promised a tough action against me.”
The uniformed men attacked several houses, breaking
windowpanes and destroying properties. The worst damage was caused
to author’s parental house where he currently stayed. For almost
half an hour, the police-CRPF combine targeted houses with stones
and batons, destroying windows, window frames causing damage worth
lacks of rupees.