NEW DELHI: Making a strong pitch for “healing the wounds” of Kashmir, Congress today pitched for talks with mainstream and non-mainstream parties and “other stakeholders” to defuse the “extremely tense and tragic” situation.
After an all party meeting on the issue chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said, “We assure the Government that for any positive step to resolve the issue in Kashmir, they will have our full co-operation.”
Significantly, the Congress leader emphasised that there can be no talks with Pakistan at the “moment” when it is “waging a war of words”.
Senior Congress leader and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the meeting that the “most important thing” at the moment was to defuse the present situation, Azad said at a press conference.
What is important is to “heal the wounds and not to close the doors of dialogue. Win the hearts and minds of people in general and youth in particular,” Azad said. (AGENCIES)
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