Kashmiris being treated as suspects after Delhi blast, says Omar Abdullah
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said that Kashmiris are apprehensive about travelling outside the Union Territory as they are “being portrayed as suspects” after the Delhi blast, The Indian Express reported.
He added that “even he feared driving around in New Delhi in a vehicle with a J&K number on it”.
The blast near the Red Fort metro station on November 10 killed 13 persons. Two days after the explosion, the Union government described it as a “terrorist incident”. The doctor believed to have been driving the car that exploded was identified as Umar Nabi, a resident of Kashmir.
Speaking at an event in Kulgam on Wednesday, Abdullah said that a “few persons” were responsible for the attack, “but a perception is being created where all Kashmiris are being looked at with suspicion”.
“In the prevailing circumstances after the blast, parents will not want to send their children outside,” The Indian Express quoted him as saying. “When we are looked at with suspicion, when we are defamed for someone else’s wrongdoing…it will be very difficult for us to leave Kashmir.”
He said that even driving a Jammu and Kashmir-registered vehicle in Delhi “is being seen as a crime”.
Abdullah added: “I wonder if I should take out my own car if there aren’t too many security...
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