Omar asks separatists: Where are you during winter?
May 27th, 2011 - 3:30 pm ICT by IANSJammu, May 27 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday questioned the motive of Kashmiri separatists in getting restive more during summers.
Ahead of radical Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s participation in Friday prayers at the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar, Omar wrote on micro-blogging site Twitter: “What is it about out Hurriyat friends (and their) need to create trouble on Fridays only in summer. Where were they all through winter????”
He was pointing out to the sudden flurry of activity by the separatist Hurriyat Conference leaders during summer while they were either in New Delhi or travelling abroad during winter.
In a retweet to one of his followers, Omar said the separatist leaders “want to see a death”.
But his comments about the Hurriyat Conference provoked some to react sarcastically.
One of them, Shahid Bhat, posted on the Twitter: “At least they are visible through the summers. The government is nowhere to be seen, be it winter or summer.”
To this, Omar retweeted: “Well, if you roam around with your eyes tightly squeezed, you won’t see anything, will you?”
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