Qualified as a non-lethal weapon, pellet guns have left scores of protesters blind or half blind in the ongoing protests.
Centre on Thursday virtually conceded that pellet guns, considered to be non lethal, have done more harm than containing the protesters during ongoing Kashmir unrest as home minister Rajnath Singh announced setting up of a committee to look into the use and effectiveness of the weapon.
Qualified as a non-lethal weapon, pellet guns have left scores of protesters blind or half blind in the ongoing protests.
Asserting that the security forces were instructed to exercise maximum restraint while dealing with protesters in the Kashmir valley, Singh in Lok Sabha squarely blamed Pakistan for fanning the unrest and instigating the youth.
While agreeing that Pakistan was a trouble monger, most opposition parties, especially the Congress blamed BJP government at the Centre and its coalition government with PDP in the state for deteriorating situation in the valley.
Leader of the opposition, Ghulam Nabi Azad warned the government for not taking it as merely one of the protests as he said that when the government figures also say that over 3500 civilians and security forces has been injured it should understand it is war like situation in Kashmir.
Azad also took potshots at PM Modi for not coming out with a statement or appeal or even taking part in the discussion on Kashmir in Parliament.
Replying to questions raised by certain opposition parties why it was necessary to kill Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani that provoked such massive protests, Singh said, "Wani was a commander of terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. He was tech-savy and was instigating the youth to take up arms on social media."
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