Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 2: National Conference Additional General Secretary, Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal today called for people centric CBMs in Jammu and Kashmir as both India and Pakistan are moving back from the brink, saying the people in the region are looking for a breather from years of conflict, and uncertainty.
While addressing party functionaries at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan, Jammu, he said the cessation of violence between India and Pakistan, resumption of trade, IWT parleys, DGMO level truce and other veiled diplomatic outreach between the two countries are welcome steps. He hoped that the bonhomie doesn’t go down as short lived flutter but become a perpetual feature in India and Pakistan relations.
“I hope the renewed engagement is not marked by the seven decades old pattern. It is good to see both the countries realize the inevitability of dialogue to solve all pending issues between them. Our party has been pointing out to both the countries how severely the absence of dialogue between them was costing them. Now when both of them have realized that only recourse to peace is dialogue, we welcome it whole heartedly hoping that both the countries will come forward with a workable strategy to come up with some tangible CBMs on Jammu and Kashmir, which has been on an edge and in need of a breather. The increased bonhomie between the two neighboring nations, if it fails to reprieve the people of Jammu and Kashmir of decades old uncertainty, pandemonium, is futile,” he said.
The NC leader also stated that the people Jammu and Kashmir, especially Kashmiris have been a victim of political instability, uncertainty, and violence for decades and that only a genuine political outreach from New Delhi can embalm their wounds. He stressed that an inclusive, institutionalized and sincere outreach of GOI to the people of J&K will have a positive impact on the region. The skepticism about the sincerity of New Delhi, he said, has remained unchanged and has rather increased on account of the August, 5, 2019 measures.
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