{"id":20656,"date":"2020-02-20T01:10:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T19:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=20656"},"modified":"2020-02-20T01:10:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T19:40:50","slug":"muzafar-beigh-seeks-restoration-of-statehood-of-jk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=20656","title":{"rendered":"Muzafar Beigh seeks restoration of statehood of J&#038;K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Jammu:<\/em><\/strong><em> PDP Member parliament Muzafar Hussain Beigh today demanded restoration of Statehood of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He said this during a function organised by Pahari welfare culture forum in Jammu in his honour for bagging Padma Bhushan award recently.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cI hope that statehood of J&amp;K is restored very soon,\u201d Beigh told gathering during his speech.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He said India and Pakistan leadership has to play their role for lasting peace in south Asia particularly in J&amp;K. However he blamed Pakistan for doing mischief and thwarting peace efforts of India.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c PM Modi went to Pakistan even without invitation. Then they paid back with Pathankot, similarly, after Agra summit, they did Kargil,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Without naming anyone, he blamed some political leaders for bloodshed in Kashmir.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> He also praised dogra rulers for securing the rights of the state and its subjects.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Taking a leaf from history, he said that British divided Hindu-Muslims in 1858.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen Ali Muhammad Jinnah left congress, he went to London. British government there asked him to seek separate land for Muslims,\u201d he said in a statement issued to KNS.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf India would have been undivided. It would have been most powerful voice in United nations,\u201d he said. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Those attended the event include Raja Ajaz Ali, Muhamnd Rashed Quereshi, Yasir Reshi, Rafiq Shah, Abdul Gani Kohli, Gurchan singh Charak and others (KNS)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu: PDP Member parliament Muzafar Hussain Beigh today demanded restoration of Statehood of Jammu and Kashmir. He said this during a function organised by Pahari welfare culture forum in Jammu in his honour for bagging Padma Bhushan award recently. \u201cI hope that statehood of J&amp;K is restored very soon,\u201d Beigh told gathering during his speech. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20656","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\/20656","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=20656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20656\/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=20656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}