“He also wants that the situation should improve”, he said.
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“We want to make it clear that the Government of India does not only want to have a relationship based on needs with Kashmir, but an emotional relationship”. Appeal everyone to help restore peace in Jammu and Kashmir. After completing the meeting Singh said, “I want to tell my neighbour that instigating our youth to pick up weapons is not correct”. Mr Singh accused Pakistan of encouraging terrorism and militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, and said: “Pakistan’s role is not pak (pure) in relation to Kashmir. Therefore, Mr. Singh we have decided not to meet you”, the KEA said in the letter.
Referring to the “black day” observed by Pakistan, he said the country was interfering in India’s internal matters to deflect attention from its failures.
He said a dialogue can take place to resolve whatever differences people may have in Jammu and Kashmir. “Watch out what is going to happen in future”. “Ignoring any segment of society in the State can boomerang”, it added.
Expressing sympathies with the families of deceased and those injured in the current unrest, Rajnath Singh assured all support to facilitate treatment of all injured children at AIIMS in Delhi. “I have told the Chief Minister that those injured who can’t be treated here should be sent to Delhi”. He will chair a high-level security meeting besides one-on-one interaction Governor NN Vohra and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. The prime minister spoke to me last night and discussed the situation (in Jammu and Kashmir).
Rajnath Singh had also performed the Amarnath Yatra and paid obeisance at the Hazratbal shrine here during that visit.
Members of all parties except the opposition National Conference participated in the five-hour meeting called by the Mehbooba Mufti government in Srinagar.
Mohommad Yasin Khan, president of the Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation, who also refused to meet Singh, said it was high time the central government resolved the Kashmir issue.
Separatist leaders in Kashmir have called for a protest march on Monday to Anantnag in the worst hit south Kashmir region in the recent unrest, throwing a security challenge to the authorities in the state. “Talk to them. Bring in all stakeholders within the ambit of dialogue and arrive at a solution that is acceptable to all”. Today is the 16th consecutive day, in which curfew continues to be imposed in the valley after Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Burhan Muzaffar was killed by the millitary. Constable Mudasir Ahmad, who was injured when militants, disguising as protestors, lobbed grenade on police at Yaripora on July 15, died at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) on Sunday.
The participants, two, also “expressed deep grief and concern over the loss of life”.
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The APHC Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, and Hurriyet leaders, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, in a joint statement in Srinagar appealed to the world community to take cognizance of the genocide of Kashmiris.
