Quotable Quotes
“ We will not do justice to anybody, including family of Afzal Guru if we keep raking up such issues. Baar Baar Dhool Bajatay Gaye Tou Sirf Zakhm Haray Hoongay. Hum Zakhmoon Say Khoon Nahin Baha Sakhtay. It was time to look forward and leave such issues behind. But at the same time we have to ensure that such mistakes are not repeated in future”.
Union Minister and NC president Dr Farooq Abdullah
“ Deteriorating situation in Jammu and Kashmir is the result of the oppressive policies being adopted by the present dispensation. Instead of addressing grievances of the people, the state government with the help of draconian methods like curfew is denying people their constitutional and fundamental rights.
PDP patron Mufti Muhammad Sayeed
“ I have already said that I have no skeletons in my cupboard, but yes Health Department under Sham Lal Sharma has been full of scandals. Both sampling and testing has taken place when he( Sharma) was the Health Minister so where do you find a role for politics in it. The matter was serious and there was documentary evidence which proves that substandard medicine was supplied to hospitals”
Medical Education Minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din Tuesday
“ When we were having guns in hands, not just the civil society of India but the entire world community urged us to start a non-violent democratic movement. We did that, but now we feel backstabbed. The troop withdrawal in Afghanistan and the subsequent atmosphere for talks there will force the people of Kashmir to think. I believe people, especially youth, would pose a question whether non-violent movements had failed and the gun was the only way to resolve Kashmir.”
JKLF Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik
“ The entire coalition had become ' a den of corruption and scandals. The ministers of coalition save each other. Shocking to observe is that a senior minister of NC is involved in huge bungling in constructions taking place in Srinagar.”
PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti
“ Militants want to strike in Srinagar to gain publicity. Nobody comes to know about them when they strike in a far flung area. They want to strike in Srinagar to give an impression to people that militancy is alive. Srinagar gives the militants publicity and once they strike in Srinagar, they are able to draw the attention of the whole world.”
Director General of Police Ashok Prasad