‘Nothing has changed in Kashmir’: PDP’s Iltija Mufti says she, mother Mehbooba are under house arrest

People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Iltija Mufti on Saturday claimed that she and her mother, party chief Mehbooba Mufti, had been placed under house arrest. 

Asserting that nothing has changed in Kashmir even after the elections, Iltija said she had intended to visit Kathua while Mehbooba Mufti planned to visit Sopore to meet the bereaved family of the truck driver killed in army firing on Wednesday.

In a social media post, Iltija Mufti shared pictures of the locked front gate of her house and said, “My mother and I both have been placed under house arrest. Our gates have been locked up because she was meant to visit Sopore where Waseem Mir was shot dead by the army.” 

“I intended to visit Kathua to meet Makhan Din’s family and (I) am not being allowed to even move out,” Iltija Mufti said in a post on X. 

“Nothing has changed in Kashmir even after elections. Now even comforting the families of victims is being criminalised,” she added.

Iltija also tagged Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in her X post.