JAMMU: National Conference president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah today sought multi-pronged approach to address political issues of Jammu and Kashmir asserting that peace in the Valley cannot be held ransom to elections in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.
”National Conference is ready to create an atmosphere for facilitating dialogue if the Centre is sincerely ready to address to the political dimensions of the State”, Dr Abdullah said while addressing a public rally in Mendhar area of bordering Poonch district.
He said that jingoism or military exercises won’t bring peace to the Valley but further alienate its people, who feel pushed to the wall by continued uncertainty and indiscriminate arrests of young and old.
The NC stalwart added that the Government seems to be clueless as to where from the threads of restoring normalcy are picked up, which is why even teenage boys and elders over 70 years are booked under Public Safety Act on the charges of pelting stones.
”They seem to be in race to add up to the numbers of those arrested, no matter their targets are”, he said while lamenting over the atmosphere of fear generated across the Valley. (AGENCIES)
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