news details |
|
|
| India conveys to Farooq Abdullah that talks and terror can't coexist | | | Critical of the way Pakistan has not responded to India's proposal for ending export of terror is it possible for the National Conference to motivate the New Delhi to take initiative for reopening of bilateral dialogue? Possibly not still the National Conference President, Dr Farooq Abdullah, wants India to reopen the dialogue with Pakistan with India. The National Conference (NC) president, Farooq Abdullah, has Sunday said talks were the only way forward for peace in Jammu and Kashmir and hoped that the Centre would soon take an initiative to start a dialogue with Pakistan and all the other stakeholders. Abdullah also wished a blissful pilgrimage to those visiting the holy cave shrine of Amarnath at a height of 3,880 metres in the south Kashmir Himalayas. All this is get votes during the ensuing Assembly elections so that the NC wins majority in the House and regain power.
The process of dialogue should be initiated with all shades of opinion in Jammu and Kashmir, as also with Pakistan to achieve the larger objective of peace in the state," he said on the sidelines of a function at Lakhanpur in Kathua district. The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said history stood testimony to the fact that all contentious issues were sorted out by sitting around the table and hoped that the process of dialogue would be initiated by India and Pakistan, "sooner the better". He recalled that former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had initiated talks with Pakistan even after hostilities between the two neighbouring countries in a bid to improve the relations.
"The beneficiaries of the dialogue will be the people of Jammu and Kashmir, who have been bearing the brunt of the hostilities," Abdullah said while exuding confidence that the Indo-Pak talks would lead to the culmination of violence in the state. Yes Farooq is right but is it possible for India to reopen the channels of dialogue with Pakistan because Islamabad has not ended export of terror to Jammu and Kashmir. If during the last one year 109 militants had been killed in encounters with the security forces the export of terror from Pakistan continues on the pretext that there are still 250 militants most of them having carved out hiding places in south Kashmir. That should be the reason for raise in the level of violence in south Kashmir. If Farooq wants to start bilateral talks he should convey to Islamabad to accept India's plea for ending export of terror. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
