{"id":10023,"date":"2017-07-18T09:06:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T03:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=10023"},"modified":"2017-07-18T09:06:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T03:36:19","slug":"india-lacks-power-challenge-china-farooq-abdullah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=10023","title":{"rendered":"India Lacks Power to Challenge China: Farooq Abdullah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> Former chief minister and National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah on Monday asserted that India lacks the power to take \u201cChina-occupied Kashmir\u201d back from Beijing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn Ladakh, China has occupied the Aksai Chin. We shout about it, but do not have the power to take it back,\u201d Farooq told a news gathering agency , adding that the only way to resolve the tension with China is to be friends with them, as war is not a solution.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIndia should enhance their diplomatic channels and with that they should resolve this matter. China is Pakistan\u2019s friend, had we maintained our friendship with China, they would not have been friends with Pakistan,\u201d he was quoted by the news gathering agency .<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Farooq asserted that China\u2019s motive is to make the Karakoram by-pass, which would serve as their silk route and will connect them to the port. Which eventually passes through region occupied by China.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDalai Lama is another issue. They are asking to send him out of the country. India knows how to give one shelter, cannot throw someone out of the country,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Former chief minister and National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah on Monday asserted that India lacks the power to take \u201cChina-occupied Kashmir\u201d back from Beijing. \u201cIn Ladakh, China has occupied the Aksai Chin. We shout about it, but do not have the power to take it back,\u201d Farooq told a news gathering agency , adding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}