Mufti urges separatists to join talks
Jammu and Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti, on Sunday urged separatists and all other political forces in the state to come forward and respond positively to the Centre’s dialogue officer. “Army or the police cannot resolve it, it can only be resolved politically thorough dialogue,” she added.
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, on Sunday urged separatists and all other shades of political opinion in the restive state to come forward and respond positively to the Centre’s dialogue officer.
“All political parties and other shades of political opinion ought to play their role in getting people of the state out of the unending cycle of violence. The government is ready to hold talks with all including Pakistan and separatists to find out lasting solution to the imbroglio peacefully,” she said. She made a fervent appeal to separatists and others to seize the opportunity asserting that the people of the state particularly the youth are suffering enormously due to turmoil and there is urgency of coming to their rescue. “We all need to give them a safe, secure and peaceful future,” she said while speaking at a convention of her Peoples’ Democratic Party.
Referring to the all- party meet convened by her in Srinagar last month, the Chief Minister said that the idea behind it was to find ways and means to get the State out of the difficult situation it has been caught due to unending violence. “We at the meet decided to ask the government to declare ceasefire during the holy month of Ramzan. Our request was conceded and with that we made beginning. Now the onus to take it forward lies on all other political parties,” she said. She said that ceasefire and offer of talks made by the Centre was an opportunity to separatists to stop bloodshed in the state.
“There are other parties which are not in the mainstream, and if they have some other agenda, they have an opportunity if they want to stop bloodshed,” Ms Mufti said.