Mehbooba Mufti Burns Images Of U.S. And Israeli Leaders
The PDP president said the world order today is in total disarray.
Srinagar : Amid persisting public anger in Kashmir over the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Syed Ali Khamenei in what has been described as a joint U.S.–Israel air strike, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti led a symbolic protest on Wednesday.
At the PDP headquarters in Srinagar, she set fire to a wooden frame on which photographs of U.S. President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and American financier Jeffrey Epstein—who had been convicted of child sex offences—had been mounted. The act formed the centrepiece of her protest, drawing the attention of party members present and underscoring the intensity of the sentiments she sought to convey. The party later circulated the footage of her act through the party’s social media channels.
Mufti also posted the video on ‘X’, accompanying it with a message that read, “I stand in peace with those who stand in peace with you, and in opposition to those who oppose you, until the Day of Judgment.” A PDP leader said, “Her statement echoed the sentiments of many in Jammu and Kashmir and beyond who have expressed strong reactions to the developments in the Middle East and their wider implications.”
