NC demands rehabilitation package for J&K truck attack victims

Opposition National Conference (NC) today demanded a rehabilitation package for the victims of Udhampur truck attack, which left two youth severely injured.
"On the instructions of party working president Omar Abdullah, a delegation of senior NC leaders and legislators visited the families of the victims at Urnhall and Batengoo (in south Kashmir) to express solidarity with the injured youth.
"Besides offering logistical and other necessary support to the victims, the legislators pledged to contribute an amount of Rs 2 lakhs to them," a party spokesman said here.
The party maintained that the government must do something concrete and substantial for the victims.

"Considering the challenging economic situation before the youth and their families, we request the government to provide them with decent employment opportunity.
"Rather than rhetoric statements of condemnation, the government must do something concrete and substantial for the victims," the spokesman said.

Zahid Ahmed (19) and Showkat Ahmed (35) were severely injured when allegedly a petrol bomb was hurled at their truck last week, in Udhampur.
The spokesman said the two truckers became victims of a "political conspiracy".
"The petrol bomb attack was pre-planned and aimed at killing the duo. Till date, the government has failed to reinstate a sense of security among truck drivers from Kashmir which can only be achieved if the government imposes Public Safety Act (PSA) on the identified attackers.

"Considering the situation along Kashmir and Jammu Highway, this measure therefore becomes imperative," he added.