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| PDP to cross LoC, ready to enter Muzaffarabad: Mehbooba Mufti | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 10
Peoples democratic party (PDP) is ready to cross line of control and go to Muzaffarabad on Monday.In her press statement PDP Chief MehboobaMufti onSunday said that PDP would fully participate in the march too Muzaffarbad. She said senior leaders Abdul Aziz Zargar and Mohammad Dilawar Mir would lead the party workers and supportes and join the Fruit growers association.
Mehbooba Mufti also underscored the need to make the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Road fully operational for passenger and goods traffic.She said the Indo Pak dialogue must now zero in on this subject with speed and focus as the situation cannot brook any further delay in restoring regular passenger and goods traffic on the road in view of the emerging scenario in Jammu.
In a her statement she said the economic blockade against Kashmiris only underscores the importance of this vital road for our economic survival.
Mehbooba said PDP has all along been stressing the need for reopening of all traditional routes that offered Kashmir an unlimited access to outside world. The denial of this access over the past sixty years had acted as a severe constraint on the growth of the state on economic and social front; she said and added that the march should be seen as the assertion of Kashmir's inalienable right to trade and travel without restrictions.
PDP, Mehbooba said had effectively brought the need for opening up of Kashmir on the center stage and some success in the shape of Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus service owed itself to the leadership of this party and the sacrifices of its cadres. Paying tributes to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives at Uri on April 7th 2004 when PDP launched its first march in support of the demand to open the highway, she said it is time that the two parts of the state are now reunited for ushering in a new era of peace and progress in the region.
PDP president said opening up of the road between Muzaffarabad and Srinagar along with other links like Suchetgarh-Sialkote, Rawlakot-Pooch and Kargil-Skardu offered a win-win opportunity to India, Pakistan and the people of the state.
Even otherwise, Mehbooba said the inability to upgrade the existing link between Srinagar and Jammu to decent Highway standards which could cater to increased economic and infrastructural requirements underlined the need to use Muzaffarabad Road. (KIP) |
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