Reveal identities of labourers' killers: NC chief Farooq Abdullah

Srinagar: Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and ruling National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday demanded that the identity of the killers of two non-local labourers in Kulgam and a policeman in Anantnag be made public.

He also asked the authorities where the militants were coming from, when they claimed that the militancy had ended and the borders were sealed especially after 2019, when the erstwhile state of J&K was downgraded into the two UTs of J&K and Ladakh and Article 370 and 35A were abrogated.

"They (administration) should tell people who is carrying out these killings. All we are told is that terrorists killed them. The question is where the terrorists are coming from when all the borders are sealed," Abdullah told reporters on the sidelines of a function in the Bijbehara area of Anantnag district in southern Kashmir.


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The NC chief said it was imperative to unmask the killers to test the lieutenant governor's claim that terrorism has ended in the Valley. "Let us and the whole world see who these killers are. Has terrorism ended? You can see how much the situation has changed," he said, while referring to the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.