Army will withdrawn from Jammu and Kashmir, if……
New Delhi, July 5: Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said decades of militancy had shattered the education system in Jammu and Kashmir and this is one of factors behind stone-pelting protests in the state.
The Army chief was interacting with students from Chhattisgarh who were on a trip to Delhi.
One
of
them
asked
him
why
there
were
frequent
stone-pelting
incidents
in
the
Kashmir,
Gen
Rawat
replied
that
Kashmiris
were
being
"fed
with
misinformation
that
India
was
anti-Muslim
and
those
who
eat
beef
were
being
killed".
"They try to shield militants. They pelt stones as it is easily available. (Stone-)pelting is not (something) new. Unemployment is a factor for this, but it is not unique to Kashmir.
There is unemployment in other parts of the country as well. Youngsters there don't pelt stones. Education there (Kashmir) is shattered. Most of the schooling is done through madarassas, which cannot get you good jobs," he said.
Gen Rawat said the Army had two ways of dealing with the situation.
"The harsh way or the other way is to make them understand that what they are doing is wrong. We bring some of the people from there to Delhi to show we don't have Army on every corner here as Delhi is peaceful. If Kashmir is also peaceful, the Army will be taken away from there."