Sir — This refers to the editorial, “The dance of hatred” (June 26). The provocation for the barbaric action, of lynching a Kashmiri Muslim police officer, Mohammed Ayub Pandith, was that his name on the uniform read as ‘MA Pandith’, probably a Kashmiri Pandit. It was the worst form of duplicity and criminality: On the one hand, separatists claim that they are not against Kashmiri Pandits. On the other, they do not hesitate to lynch their own co-religionist, despite the fact that he was at he mosque on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramzan, to protect them. If Islam is a religion of peace, how can any sane jihadi kill some one in the name of IslamIJ
It has been revealed in the media that the separatists are not only getting money from Pakistan for their anti-Indian activities, but that the Indian state apparatus too provides them security cover at the cost of public funds. Is it not shocking that instead of curbing and jailing them, the State Government is protecting them with a security coverIJ