Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, scheduled to begin today, is a timely follow-up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Opposition leaders from the State on Monday. To be sure, the authorities are still struggling to bring under control the cycle of protests, police reaction and thereby death and injury. A good start would be to ban the pellet gun. If there is a dark symbol of this summer in Kashmir, it is the protester or passerby, as the case may be, with eye injuries. Shockingly, a significant number of pellet injuries have been inflicted on children below 15 years of age — perhaps as high as 15 per cent of those with pellet injuries.

Source: The Hindu August 23, 2016 20:03 UTC