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| First from mainstream: Soz promises probe in unnamed graves | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Apr 19
The Pradesh Congress Committee resident and Union Minister for Water Resources Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz is these days in full poll mode in the Valley as he going places crediting the UPA government and hitting the Peoples Democratic Party.
Even as the PDP leadership claims the credit for running buses between divided parts of Jammu and Kashmir Soz is pooh-poohing claims with assertions that this was all possible with the efforts and vision of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Incidentally Soz today became the first mainstream leader to promise a probe into the unnamed graves in North Kashmir. The grave issue has been assuming enormous proportions but the entire mainstream political leadership including the PDP has been maintaining a silence leaving it all to the separatists and the human sights groups.
Addressing a public meeting Hardwara today, Soz said that he would take up the matter of unidentified graves with defence Minster A K Antony so that the facts could be brought before public.
He said that talks between India and Pakistan regarding Kashmir issue is on and dialogue on other issues would be resumed so that further confidence-building measures can be carried.
Prof Soz said, "Dialogue is the only way to resolve Kashmir issue and Confidence Building Measures would pave way ahead for better relations". Adding he said that long list of Kashmir-related CBMs was under consideration of the centre but he could not reveal the measures in the pipeline in advance because the parliament was in session.
"The steps will become clear in the near future and I can assure that such CBMs will be announced as you and I cannot even conceive of today," he said.
Regarding the unemployment issue Soz said, "Congress has always tried to solve the grave problem of unemployment in state and new employment drive has already been lunched."
Terming the Mufti Mohmmed Sayeed's Pakistan currency proposal an election trend to strengthen vote bank, Soz said, "Implementation of Pakistani currency is impossible as other states of India will not accept it".
He said that both Indian and Pakistani governments give primacy to moving forward, while the Congress-led government at the centre was engaged in efforts to ensure development alongside peace.
Lauding the chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Prof Soz said that the Azad-led government had achieved new milestones in development, while developmental work had been done under Mufti Muhammad Sayeed also.
He said that the state had abundant water resources and efforts were underway to safeguard them. According to Prof Soz, the river Jhelum would be cleaned from Kahanabal to Khadanyar and its banks freed of all encroachments. |
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