Srinagar, Aug. 25 -- : J&K Peoples Conference president and Handwara MLA Sajad Lone criticised leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, questioning why his "much-publicised concern" over pellet gun injuries in Delhi was nowhere to be found during years of "mass blindings and pellet violence in Kashmir that left thousands permanently disabled and hundreds robbed of their eyesight forever". Lone, while acknowledging Gandhi's recent move to register an FIR over a pellet injury sustained in Delhi, demanded to know why the same "moral urgency" had never been extended to the Valley. "May I, with all the humility at my command, beg to ask why the same effort was not used when pellets were fired in Kashmir on many occasions," said Lone. "The scale of that suffering is staggering and documented. Between 2016 and 2017, the then Jammu and Kashmir government's own records reported 6,221 people injured by pellet firing, including 782 with eye injuries. Hundreds lost their eyesight and were blinded for life, with permanent visual impairment. Thousands were disabled permanently because of gruesome injuries," he said. htc...