Don’t fall prey to separatist design, army appeals to Kashmiris

SRINAGAR - The army Thursday appealed to people in the Kashmir Valley not to “fall prey to the designs” of the separatists, who plan to bring the people into confrontation with the army.

Lt. Col. J.S. Brar, spokesman of the army’s 15th Corps, told media persons here that the Hurriyat leaders were planning to bring the people into direct confrontation with the army.

“The Indian Army is a people’s army and the people should not fall prey to the designs of the Hurriyat leaders who are planning to bring the people into confrontation with the army,” Brar said here.

The spokesman was reacting to the programme announced by the hardline Hurriyat group headed by Syed Ali Geelani as part of the group’s Quit Kashmir campaign.

Geelani has asked people across the Valley to stage sit-ins and dharnas outside the army camps Sep 20 to press for the complete demilitarization demand of the separatists.