Srinagar, Oct 3, 2025

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti said on Friday that youth “were rising in protests” because they are “confronting the raw truth that the system has failed their hopes and aspirations”.

Mufti said on X, “From Uttarakhand to Ladakh & across the border in Kashmir Gen Z is rising. Because when your future feels bleak & your dreams are shattered – resistance knows no borders.

These are young people who toiled for a future studied hard, followed every rule and held on to a ray of hope. But now they see the promise of that future slipping away. They aren’t just protesting. They are confronting power with raw truth because the very system they were told to believe in has failed them catastrophically

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