Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 13: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today urged for peace along the borders and an end to confrontation as people of the State suffer huge losses due to it.
Speaking to reporters at TRC football ground after launching Football Academy, the Chief Minister expressed concern over the shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Nowshehra in which two civilians were killed today.
“It is very unfortunate that from past many days, firing is going on in Nowshera sector in which first one lady died and then another. Today there have been more deaths”, she said.
Mehbooba said that by war and border shelling, people and the State of Jammu and Kashmir suffers the most. “It is disappointing and I have always said that we believe that by war and this type of confrontation, mortar shelling, our State and people suffer highest losses”, she said.
The Chief Minister said that by border shelling common people die and suffer on both the sides of the LoC. “So I will say that both the countries, Pakistan and India should think that by this kind of mortar shelling, there have been deaths of people and I believe deaths would have occurred also there from the other side because in retaliation, people also died from other side and here too”, she said.
She said that the shelling benefits none and urged for peace like that during former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee era. “So it benefits none. We should try to live together as neighbours with peace like we did during Vajpayee’s tenure”, she said.
When asked about security to the Hurriyat Conference leaders after Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Zakir issued threats to them, the Chief Minister said:”If someone seeks security from us we will think over it”.
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