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Yasin Malik plays good Samaritan in J&K
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik has intensified his campaign for donation to families of victims of recent encounters in Sopore and Tral.
So far he has collected Rs. 5.50 lakh in Srinagar alone. He has mostly been approaching people from business community and the response he says is encouraging. Mr. Malik. who renounced violence in 1994 has been working on the political front to resolve the Kashmir issue. But he has also been involved in humanitarian work in which this campaign is the latest development. Sopore town in north Kashmir and Tral in South have recently witnessed fierce encounters between militants and security forces which left huge devastation, rendering scores of families without shelter. The government has sanctioned an amount of Rs. 24 lakh for Sopore victims.
Mr. Malik says, “it is important to do something concrete on the ground to rehabilitate the victims. Slogans alone will not do. We have to do something practically as well,” he told The Hindu during the campaign in Nehru Park area of Srinagar on Tuesday. During the devastating fire in Chrar-e-Sharief in 1995 he launched a similar campaign. This was repeated when earthquake hit Latur and Mahrashtra. Later during 2005 earthquake across Line of Control, he collected relief for victims and went across with Rs. 1 crore to help victims in Pakistan Administered Kashmir. In 2008 also he came forward to help families of 60 civilians who were killed in police and security force action during the Amarnath land row. In the same year he went to meet Amarnath yatris and assured them complete protection.
