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No phone? So be it: J&K governor Satya Pal Malik

Malik was in the national capital to attend the funeral of Arun Jaitley

Our Special Correspondent New Delhi Published 25.08.19, 08:13 PM
Satya Pal Malik during the hoisting of the national flag at Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket Stadium in Srinagar on August 15, 2019. “Our attitude is such 
that there should be no loss of human lives. If there’s no telephone for 10 days, so be it. But we will roll back these measures very soon,” he said.

Satya Pal Malik during the hoisting of the national flag at Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket Stadium in Srinagar on August 15, 2019. “Our attitude is such that there should be no loss of human lives. If there’s no telephone for 10 days, so be it. But we will roll back these measures very soon,” he said. (PTI)

Governor Satya Pal Malik on Sunday defended the communication curbs in Jammu and Kashmir, saying “If there’s no telephone for 10 days, so be it” and stressing that this was preferable to the loss of lives.

“Our attitude is such that there should be no loss of human lives. If there’s no telephone for 10 days, so be it. But we will roll back these measures very soon,” he told news agency ANI in Delhi.

Malik was in the national capital to attend the funeral of former finance minister Arun Jaitley.

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