Prime Minister Narendra Modi today chaired an all-party meeting to discuss the prevailing situation in Kashmir and said that he is deeply pained by recent incidents that have taken place in the state.
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While the Lok Sabha posted performance wise productivity in the monsoon session of 111 per cent, the Rajya Sabha achieved 100 per cent, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Friday.
PM Modi said people from PoK and Balochistan living in other countries should be contacted and asked about atrocities in their regions to expose Pakistan in front of the world community, Singh said while sharing the salient points of PM’s speech at the All Party Meet.
All political parties are hopeful that a way-out will emerge and peace will return to the Valley, which is on the boil since Hizbul Mujahideen Posterboy Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter on July 8. There are reports that separatists plan to organise events across the region to celebrate Pakistan Day on August 14.
Invoking former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee again, he said his government would follow the path shown by him, a reference to the former Prime Minister’s offer to hold dialogue under the framework of “insaniyat (humanity), jamhuriyat (democracy) and Kashmiriyat”. “Even if it decides to send an all party delegation there is no clarity on who it will meet and talk to”. Opposition parties also demanded to ban the use of pellet guns against the protesters. Over 50 people have been killed and more than 5,000 injured in clashes between protestors and security forces. “We assure our fulll cooperation”, Singh said.
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Rajnath Singh’s assurance in parliament that the region will not be handed over to the Army after the Amarnath yatra was expected to ease some tension, but it so far it seems to have had little impact.
