NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir leader minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to initiate a discussion procedure with Pakistan at the earliest because the "key for peace" was with the neighbouring nation.
Speaking at a serve as organised through a group of Kashmiri Pandits owing allegiance to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mufti said that warfare was by no means an option.
"Reconciliation is the mantra which we need to follow and therefore, I request Modi ji to engage with Pakistan," she said.
"We need to take an assurance from the neighbouring country that they should not be allowing their soil to be used against India. After all, we all know that the key for peace is in Pakistan. They have been pushing terrorists into the state," she said.
The leader minister said that efforts must be made for changing the slogan of "Azadi" within the Kashmir Valley.
"This can also be completed. Why cannot Jammu and Kashmir be a gateway to the central Asian international locations.
"If the CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) is an opportunity, so can also be this. If new roads are opened, the slogan of Azadi will robotically exchange," she said at a gathering of around 200 Kashmiri Pandits, who had to leave their homes after the onset of terrorism in 1990.
She recommended other people to not watch debates on tv channels which only foment hatred between the 2 warring countries in addition to the Muslims of Kashmir and the remainder of the rustic.
"Those, sitting in studios and pontificating the country, are only within the TRP rankings and not finding way to the problem.
"Many a times I wonder who are these people who talk so much on television. Are they even aware of the ground realities," she said.
Mufti said that each second day daggers are out and a warfare hysteria is created.
"If a war had to happen, it would have in 2001 when the armies of the two nation were in an eye-ball-to-eye ball contact for over a year," she said.
"War (between India and Pakistan) will not happen. After the attack on Parliament in 2001, the armies of both the countries (India and Pakistan) were deployed along borders for a year, if the war did not take place back then, it will not take place now as both the nations know it will be disastrous (for both)," she said.
She additionally appealed for a reconciliation between the Kashmiri Muslims and Pandit community.
"I know you other people had to leave your homes below tough situations. You other people have suffered but so do have those who are their in Kashmir.
"The gift of education has helped you (Pandits) in making a name for yourself but those in Kashmir are still looking to are living a calm lifestyles," the executive minister said and made an appeal to Kashmiri Pandits to discuss with the Valley.
"The Valley is incomplete without you. To begin with, please come as tourists and later if you feel so, you're most welcome to go back in your homes and keep there. I'm really not assuring you a roller coaster experience.
"Difficulties will be there but we together have to face these difficulties. Please do not wait for the last gun to fall silent," she said.
The leader minister additionally apologised to the Kashmiri Pandits for lengthen in resolving their problems.
The Kashmiri Pandits must send their younger generations to see the state to familiarise them with their roots, the way youngsters from Jammu and Kashmir are sent to see the remainder of India, Mufti said.
She additionally suggested the Centre to talk with Pakistan so that the Kashmiri Pandits can discuss with Sharda Peeth in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
When requested concerning the third front, she said each birthday celebration has a right to be in alliance with any birthday celebration it desires.
Over finances to Jammu and Kashmir, she said it's given through the Centre and the earliest they accomplish that, the state govt tries to utilise them.
A constitution of calls for, together with medical health insurance, was submitted through the group of Kashmiri Pandits to the executive minister who assured that she will imagine and act upon them.
Sharda Peeth, once thought to be a major centre of learning, is an abandoned Hindu temple situated in Sharda village along the Neelam river close to the Line of Control (LoC).
Speaking at a serve as organised through a group of Kashmiri Pandits owing allegiance to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mufti said that warfare was by no means an option.
"Reconciliation is the mantra which we need to follow and therefore, I request Modi ji to engage with Pakistan," she said.
"We need to take an assurance from the neighbouring country that they should not be allowing their soil to be used against India. After all, we all know that the key for peace is in Pakistan. They have been pushing terrorists into the state," she said.
The leader minister said that efforts must be made for changing the slogan of "Azadi" within the Kashmir Valley.
"This can also be completed. Why cannot Jammu and Kashmir be a gateway to the central Asian international locations.
"If the CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) is an opportunity, so can also be this. If new roads are opened, the slogan of Azadi will robotically exchange," she said at a gathering of around 200 Kashmiri Pandits, who had to leave their homes after the onset of terrorism in 1990.
She recommended other people to not watch debates on tv channels which only foment hatred between the 2 warring countries in addition to the Muslims of Kashmir and the remainder of the rustic.
"Those, sitting in studios and pontificating the country, are only within the TRP rankings and not finding way to the problem.
"Many a times I wonder who are these people who talk so much on television. Are they even aware of the ground realities," she said.
Mufti said that each second day daggers are out and a warfare hysteria is created.
"If a war had to happen, it would have in 2001 when the armies of the two nation were in an eye-ball-to-eye ball contact for over a year," she said.
"War (between India and Pakistan) will not happen. After the attack on Parliament in 2001, the armies of both the countries (India and Pakistan) were deployed along borders for a year, if the war did not take place back then, it will not take place now as both the nations know it will be disastrous (for both)," she said.
She additionally appealed for a reconciliation between the Kashmiri Muslims and Pandit community.
"I know you other people had to leave your homes below tough situations. You other people have suffered but so do have those who are their in Kashmir.
"The gift of education has helped you (Pandits) in making a name for yourself but those in Kashmir are still looking to are living a calm lifestyles," the executive minister said and made an appeal to Kashmiri Pandits to discuss with the Valley.
"The Valley is incomplete without you. To begin with, please come as tourists and later if you feel so, you're most welcome to go back in your homes and keep there. I'm really not assuring you a roller coaster experience.
"Difficulties will be there but we together have to face these difficulties. Please do not wait for the last gun to fall silent," she said.
The leader minister additionally apologised to the Kashmiri Pandits for lengthen in resolving their problems.
The Kashmiri Pandits must send their younger generations to see the state to familiarise them with their roots, the way youngsters from Jammu and Kashmir are sent to see the remainder of India, Mufti said.
She additionally suggested the Centre to talk with Pakistan so that the Kashmiri Pandits can discuss with Sharda Peeth in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
When requested concerning the third front, she said each birthday celebration has a right to be in alliance with any birthday celebration it desires.
Over finances to Jammu and Kashmir, she said it's given through the Centre and the earliest they accomplish that, the state govt tries to utilise them.
A constitution of calls for, together with medical health insurance, was submitted through the group of Kashmiri Pandits to the executive minister who assured that she will imagine and act upon them.
Sharda Peeth, once thought to be a major centre of learning, is an abandoned Hindu temple situated in Sharda village along the Neelam river close to the Line of Control (LoC).
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