J&K Education Minister demands removal of AFSPA from UT

STC NEWS DESK
SRINAGAR, JUNE 12 (STC): Jammu and Kashmir education and health minister Sakina Itoo has called for the removal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from the Union Territory. She asserted that the improved security situation and absence of stone-pelting warranted the repeal at par with the Northeast.
“If it is better, then it should be removed from here too. If they say that the situation has improved, now there is nothing here. Now there are no stones, nothing is happening. After that, I think it should be removed from here first,” Sakina Itoo said.
Her remarks came a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that AFSPA would be completely withdrawn from the Northeast barring one state, citing a sharp decline in insurgency and improved law and order.

(Straight Talk Communications)