Asked to comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi ” s remarks about atrocities in Pakistan’s Balochistan, US Ambassador Richard Verma was quoted by news website “The Quint’ as having said in an interview that,”I would let the Prime Minister’s comment stand on its own”.
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Addressing the concerns of the opposition delegation led by Omar, Prime Minister Modi expressed “deep concern and pain” at the prevailing situation in the state and appealed for the restoration of normality. “Whether the lives lost are of our youth, security personnel or police, it distresses us”, Modi said, according to an official statement. Speaking to a private TV channel, he said a political solution to the problem will have to be found soon within the Constitutional parameters.
As Home Minister Rajnath Singh will undertake a two-day visit to the Indian-administered-Kashmir on Wednesday, Congress on Tuesday made a strong pitch for initiating talks to calm down the situation in the state which is on the boil for the past 45 days. Abdullah said the opposition leaders handed over a memorandum to the PM warning him against the “tried and tested formulations of dealing with the issue in Kashmir administratively rather than politically”.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Tuesday that certain forces are out to fulfill the risky agenda of dividing people of the state in the name of region and religion.
Mehbooba also sent out a message to those raising “pro-azadi” slogans, asking them to see the condition of Muslims in Islamic countries like Pakistan, Syria, Turkey and Afghanistan even though these nations have “freedom”.
On Monday, Congress had dismissed as “shooting from the hip” the prime minister’s call for a dialogue to find a lasting solution to the unrest in Kashmir Valley.
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The Centre yesterday rushed 2,600 additional paramilitary forces to Jammu and Kashmir, in the wake of continuous unrest in the Kashmir Valley.
