Ms Mufti, where were you when Hizb men killed 3-yr-old last wk?

SRINAGAR: Jammu & Kashmir assembly witnessed a stormy start on Monday when PDP members, led by Mehbooba Mufti, stormed the well of the House demanding arrest of Shopian case accused. They tried to snatch the Speaker���s microphone.

Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone directed marshals to remove the unruly PDP members from the assembly.
The assault on chair was condemned by the treasury benches. ���You cannot win elections or hearts of the people by disturbing proceedings, riding on desks and snatching mike and papers from the Speaker,��� chief minister Omar Abdullah later said.

���The issues can be raised at an appropriate time during the session which is more than one month long.��� He said the scene was created for publicity purpose. The chief minister asked legislators to behave in a disciplined and decent manner.

Mr Abdullah had last Friday launched a scathing attack on PDP and the separatists for their silence on killings of a three-year-old boy and his father by Hizbul Mujahideen (armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islamia) militants. These leaders have also maintained stoic silence over the brutal killings of two women ��� 17-year-old Nigeen Awan and 45-year-old Rashma Jan ��� by the Hizb militants. But these deaths ��� barbaric in their own way ��� have gone almost unnoticed.

Mr Abdullah in a rally in South Kashmir had said ���had they been real champions of human rights, they would have at least spoken against the killers of a three-year-old child (Mohammad Arif) and his father (Mohammad Aslam)���.

Terming the Monday���s incident ���unfortunate��� and ���shameful���, parliamentary affairs minister Ali M Sagar said: ���PDP has no real issue to raise, so they are resorting to adventurism. PDP���s irresponsible behaviour was without any provocation.���