{"id":16080,"date":"2019-01-26T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T04:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=16080"},"modified":"2019-01-26T10:27:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T04:57:15","slug":"allow-hurriyat-to-speak-up-and-provide-them-space-sajad-lone-to-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=16080","title":{"rendered":"Allow Hurriyat to speak up and provide them space, Sajad Lone to Authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Srinagar, Jan 24:<\/i><\/strong><i> Asking authorities not to muzzle political dissent, pro-freedom leader turned politician and People\u2019s Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone Thursday said that there is a dire need to start a political discourse in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>On the sidelines of a press conference, Sajad Lone said that separatist with a different political ideology should be given space and like mainstream politicians they should also be allowed to organize rallies and conference. \u201cProvide them space and allow them to speak up. Political discourse should be started and political dissent should not be muzzled. This will keep people away from violence,\u201d Lone told news agency CNS.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>He said gun and violence can\u2019t solve any problem. \u201cPeople won\u2019t involve themselves in violence if they will be allowed to express themselves freely. Allow separatist leaders to organize rallies if they wish to do so,\u201d he said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>In response to a question, he said that we should treat others in the same way we treat our own children. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t allow others to indulge in violence. What we think of our own children should be thought about the children of others,\u201d Lone said in an apparent reference to Hurriyat leaders asking them to keep young boys away from violence. (CNS)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Jan 24: Asking authorities not to muzzle political dissent, pro-freedom leader turned politician and People\u2019s Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone Thursday said that there is a dire need to start a political discourse in Jammu and Kashmir. On the sidelines of a press conference, Sajad Lone said that separatist with a different political ideology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16080","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\/16080","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=16080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080\/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=16080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}