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.