SRINAGAR, July 25: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has lashed out at Pakistan and said they should change policy of provoking Kashmiri youth for picking up guns.
Mehbooba said “ Pakistan says that we are victims of terror; their 146 children died in school attack in a single day and people fear to go inside their mosques. And today when a Kashmiri children takes up gun they call them leaders and tell they are doing good thing but when their own children, some from madrassas etc back home take up gun they attack them with drones and then hang them in military courts."
Mehbooba said “the political process started by late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed from opening routes to healing touch, somewhere that has stopped and only governance and development were talked about and to what limit that happened, is again a matter of discussion."
On AFSPA, Mehbooba said " On test case, on experimental basis, if it was revoked slowly and it was seen how the situation remained in such areas. If the situation remained well, then it should have been revoked entirely or it should have been re-implemented if you felt the militancy did not allow it to be revoked,” Mehbooba said.
Hailing Prime Minister Modi,Mehbooba said: “Our Prime Minister’s attempt was very good when he went to Lahore. It was not an ordinary gesture that the Prime Minister of a country goes like that, but unfortunately then Pathankot happened and because of that the process was stalled. I firmly believe in what Vajpayee said that you can change friends but not neighbours, so till the time both the countries do not keep good relations and keep the situation better, neither they nor us can progress.”
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