Thursday, September 27, 2018

Power nap in Kashmir

Gasha,halat kateh kharab net gow beye  band(dear big brother , is everything ok , internet has been again barred), asks my younger brother..!!!Take a power nap , i replied..
I have been hearing such words post Burhan Wani era.The social media tools are being used as a medium to disseminate and publish militancy promotional posts and audio-visual messages. Government found that social media is fostering and supporting the campaign of rebels and started banning it frequently.Undoubtly, news and rumours spread like a fire on social media platforms but banning it for security reasons impinges on fundamental rights of citizens.Instead of banning government should find alternatives to stop fake news and rumours circulation on social media which leads to security threats.
When i readout the recent statement made by special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye and special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Michel Forst,which is as follows :-
“The scope of these restrictions has a significantly disproportionate impact on the fundamental rights of everyone in Kashmir, undermining the government’s stated aim of preventing dissemination of information that could lead to violence".I screamed but fortunately no one was hearing me and again i  uttered loudly same words while replying my brother (Take a power nap)....
Power nap ..Yes the kinda power nap we take here is not for relaxing or restoring mental alertness after working but it is the power nap a journalist takes during covering a CASO ,clashes and war, a mother while hearing gunshots, owner of a house while seeing destruction of his home due to bombs and bullets,a
protester or demonstrator when tear gas shell is fired , an eye when pellet penetrates through it,  a soldier & a  militant in a war , detainee when PSA is quashed upon him,  and a normal kashmiri when fear and trepidation irks him.The psychologically disturbed every  kashmiri takes a power nap and it perturbs me and every normal kashmiri like me........