Empathising with the families of those security personnel killed in Pulwama in Kashmir, in a statement issued here today, Dal Khalsa regretted the loss of human lives and said ‘such a loss, either of of the security forces or that of a militant or even an ordinary person is always painful’.

What is disturbing is that when there are regular deaths of insurgents, then the mainstream media and civil society take very little notice, whereas whenever an incident of such magnitude happens, like it had happened in Pulwama, there is an uproar of rhetoric, anger and revenge which does not help to reduce tensions or resolve the conflict which has led to such violence”, said, Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwarpal Singh.

Condemning the rhetoric of the political class, he further said that, “war mongering at such times in a retaliatory tone is not helpful as it only adds fuel to the fire.”

The Dal Khalsa statement sought to know, “Why is there no consistent effort to understand the political causes for the strife in Kashmir?

This conflict has been lingering since decades and the people of the valley are dying every day and facing untold misery.  Yet, governments see this only as a law and order problem and do not deal it as a political issue.

To avert any further loss of lives on both sides, the government does not have to indulge in war talks, but reopen dialogue with rebels to resolve the very issues which are at the heart of the problem, he observed.