{"id":13900,"date":"2018-12-28T20:56:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=13900"},"modified":"2018-12-28T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:26:18","slug":"we-talk-about-dialogue-we-dont-want-dialogue-sajad-lone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=13900","title":{"rendered":"We talk about dialogue, we don\u2019t want dialogue: Sajad Lone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Kashmiris are Indians but they don\u2019t think like that\u2019<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n

New Delhi:<\/i><\/strong> Peoples Conference (PC) Chairman Sajad Lone here Thursday said though there was a talk about dialogue, it seemed that there was no desire for dialogue.<\/i>
\n\u201cWe talk about dialogue but we don\u2019t want dialogue,\u201d he said at an event \u2018Kashmir: The Way Forward\u2019 organised by a Delhi-based think-tank the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi.<\/i>
\n\u201cOnce there are arrangements for a dialogue, then it should be decided to whom to talk but to say prior to a dialogue process to who you want to talk is not justified,\u201d Lone said.<\/i>
\nThe PC Chairman said, \u201cKashmiris are Indians but they don\u2019t think like that.\u201d<\/i>
\nAbout the chances of his party in the forthcoming legislative assembly elections in the State, Lone said he was fighting against \u201cthe Uncle\u201d and \u201cthe Auntie\u201d, making a reference toward the two former chief ministers of the State – National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah and Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti.<\/i>
\n\u201cNC and PDP can do anything to remain in power,\u201d he said. <\/i>
\nTalking about his experience as a minister in the PDP-BJP coalition government in the State, the PC Chairman said, \u201cThere was no ideological conflict in the cabinet.\u201d<\/i>
\nHowever, he said he cannot forget the humiliation he faced as a minster when, despite his repeated requests, the funds he was asking for were not released.<\/i>
\nLone said during the 2016 uprising, the State cabinet was taking decisions unlike in the 2010 uprising when the Union Home Secretary was taking the decision of imposing the curfew or lifting curfew.<\/i>
\nOn his switch from separatist politics to mainstream politics, he said, \u201cI think that there is no place for a separatist in the mainstream politics and what I am going through no one can understand.\u201d<\/i>
\nThe PC Chairman said he was not a dynastic politician and did not even poach on any MLA from any other party and that they had come to him and requested him to form the government.<\/i>
\nHe also raised a question mark on the New Delhi\u2019s role of conduction elections in the State saying that he had been witness to how elections during 1980s were rigged in Kashmir.<\/i>
\nSenior journalist Barkha Dutt, who also spoke at the event, said looking at the present plight of \u201chyper-nationalist journalists\u201d, she was ashamed of being a journalist.<\/i>
\n\u201cThere is no centrist journalism in India on Kashmir,\u201d Dutt said. \u201cThe news hour debate has damaged the situation in the Valley.\u201d<\/i>
\nShe said people in Kashmir were losing the fear of death.<\/i>
\nFormer Vice Chancellor of the Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) Siddiq Wahid said the need of the hour was \u201cfree and fair politics\u201d and not \u201cfree and fair elections\u201d.<\/i>
\n\u201cAre we joking when we say Government of India doesn\u2019t have a policy on Kashmir, and does it mean death and destruction,\u201d he said.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Kashmiris are Indians but they don\u2019t think like that\u2019 New Delhi: Peoples Conference (PC) Chairman Sajad Lone here Thursday said though there was a talk about dialogue, it seemed that there was no desire for dialogue. \u201cWe talk about dialogue but we don\u2019t want dialogue,\u201d he said at an event \u2018Kashmir: The Way Forward\u2019 organised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13900","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=13900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}