Police counseling ‘misguided' youth in Kashmir: DGP
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police are counselling the “misguided” Valley youth to prevent them from falling prey to “anti-national propaganda”.
“Going beyond its mandate of normal policing, J&K Police transforming hearts and minds by instilling national pride in the youth of the Valley,” Director General of Police S P Vaid said in a tweet.
Vaid also posted a video which showed the children, dressed in Pakistan's green-and-white and holding a Pakistani flag, marching past a life size hoarding of slain Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani at Nagbal in Shopian district on August 14 last year.
The latter half of the video shows the same kids taking part in the Republic Day parade, braving snowfall.
“We have identified the children vulnerable to inimical propaganda and started counselling them in small groups so that these kids do not fall prey to militancy,” Vaid told PTI.
He said this programme has been launched in all 10 districts of the Valley and the results have been encouraging.
The police initiative comes against the backdrop of reports that nearly 100 youngsters, mostly teenagers or youth in their early 20s, have joined militant ranks in the aftermath of the violent protests in Kashmir last year.
Protests broke out across Kashmir Valley on July 9 last year, a day after Wani was killed. PTI
