Jammu, Feb. 20 -- Peoples Conference president and MLA Sajad Gani Lone on Thursday said the police verification process has become a "sword hanging over the necks of the Kashmiri youth".

Speaking in the Legislative Assembly over the Grants of departments headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Lone termed the verification process a "collective punishment".

Regretting that if a single person in any family has made a mistake, then 100, 200, 300, or even 400 young people belonging to that family are denied police verification.

Lone urged the chief minister to convey to New Delhi that Kashmiri youth are suffering because of this process. "At least please go and tell them that our children are suffering. If we don't speak for them in this A...