[Srinagar,J&K] Ex CM Dr Farooq Abdullah Urges Separatists not to Meet Pak NSA.
He also Alleged That Separatists Are Getting Money From Both Sides Due To This Vested Interest They Keep Pot Boil Regularly,
NC leader Farooq Abdullah today urged separatist leaders not to meet Pakistan’s visiting NSA Sartaj Aziz so that the two countries can find a way of ending hostilities along the borders in J&K
Abdullah was responding to the Ministry of External Affairs’ ‘advice’ to Pakistan not to go ahead with Aziz’s engagement with the Kashmiri separatists during his visit to India for talks with NSA Ajit Doval on August 23.
Kashmiri veteran Leader said that if the talks are called off by India, cross-border shelling would resume,
He, meanwhile, slammed “vested interests” in both India and Pakistan for being opposed to peace prevailing in J-K.
National Conference spokesman Junaid Azim Mattu claimed that both India and Pakistan were trying to “wriggle out” of the dialogue process.
“While terrorism is a grave concern, any India-Pakistan talks without Kashmir on the agenda is not going to make much of a headway. The two countries are trying to wriggle out of the dialogue process,” said Mattu.
As to the MEA’s advice to Pakistan regarding that country’s NSA’s proposed meeting with separatists, Mattu said such interactions have been taking place in the past and there was nothing new in it.Dr Farukh Alleged that separatists have their vested interest they are getting money from both sides. This he said in front of TV Channel’s camera