Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti has alleged that there is a sense of unease and panic in Kashmir and nobody has a clue about what is to come but an ominous feeling of impending doom hangs in the air.

“There is a sense of unease and panic in Kashmir. Nobody has a clue about what is to come but an ominous feeling of impending doom hangs in the air. In such a surcharged atmosphere, public anger has been diverted towards Kashmiris,” Ms Mehbooba, who was the chief minister in previous PDP-BJP government in J&K, wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.

“They have never been subjected to this kind of unbridled hostility. You want Kashmir yet wage a war against its people? What are they being punished for? Why brutalise them?” she asked.

Questioning government’s decision to arrest over 150 separatists and Jamaat leaders, Ms Mufti said she fails to understand such an arbitrary move which will only precipitate matters in J&K.

“Under what legal grounds are their arrests justified,” she said, adding ‘you can imprison a person but not his ideas’.

“In the past 24 hours, Hurriyat leaders & workers of Jamaat organisation have been arrested. Fail to understand such an arbitrary move which will only precipitate matters in J&K. Under what legal grounds are their arrests justified? You can imprison a person but not his ideas,” she tweeted. (UNI)