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| War not an option, don't make civilians cannon fodder on borders: Mehbooba | | `BJP wants to divide people on religious lines' | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Srinagar, Aug 30: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti today made an appeal to governments of both India and Pakistan to stop playing with the lives of civilians living on both sides of the borders.
While addressing the Media Persons outside the Jammu and Kashmir Speaker gallery, PDP President Mehbooba Mufti urged both the Indian and Pakistani governments not make the innocent people fodder of guns and artillery on borders across the Jammu and Kashmir.
She said that both Indian and Pakistani government signed ceasefire pack on borders, added that the onus lies on the Defense Ministers of both the countries to make an attempt of peace on borders, and in case of failure; the defense Ministers of both the countries should be sacked.
The PDP leader said people of Jammu and Kashmir are the worst victims of Indo-Pak bickering/rivalry and advised both the countries to chose any place other then J&K for such activities. Taking dig at Omar Abdullah government, Mehbooba said that the present coalition government has left Jammu and Kashmir in a much worse condition, added that the National Conference- Congress coalition has not only brought about an overall rot but its failure has led to the emergence of BJP as a force in some areas of Jammu with a divisive and communal agenda. She said that her party PDP takes on the BJP challenges and stop them from dividing the state on communal lines and polarizing its population. Mehbooba said that it was highly disturbing that the government of India had called-off the secretary level talks with Pakistan on an issue that patently looks fake and fabricated. She said the Hurriyat was taken on board after the Vajpayee initiative of 2003.
"The Hurriyat leaders were allowed to meet Pakistani diplomats and encouraged to visit Pakistan and even allowed to meet president Musharaf there," she said.
Stressing that the people of J&K have a right to peace and would resist jingoism, the PDP president said if India and Pakistan want to impress each other with their military might they should choose some other place and not our state. "Whether it is Indian bullet or Pakistani it kills a resident of J&K on either side and we refuse to be part of such bloodletting" said Mehbooba Mufti. Mehbooba said the state treasuries are empty and the government again as in 2002 is bankrupt and has raised loans from Mata Vaishno Devi Board to run the affairs of the state.
Mehbooba said for six years the government persecuted the youth of the state and used bullets, pellets and chilli grenades to silence them. And now after the rout in the parliamentary polls and facing an uphill task in the coming assembly polls, the government is making fake appointments through backdoor to mislead the people and is also making noise about the withdrawal of cases against the youth. She said Chief Minister had twice announced on the floor of the state assembly that all FIRs would be 'withdrawn' but it never happened. She said this government has failed to do anything in six years and is now announcing poll time bonanzas when the state treasuries are already empty and bills worth thousands of crores are pending. She said that the BJP is deliberately communalizing the politics of J&K to seek votes for its candidates. She said the PDP would resist its attempts at communal polarization and her party has the ability and strength to fight its communal agenda of BJP. |
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