{"id":36821,"date":"2021-02-21T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T12:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=36821"},"modified":"2021-02-21T17:48:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T12:18:18","slug":"kashmir-has-become-ring-of-war-for-india-pakistan-mehbooba-mufti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=36821","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir has become ring of war for India, Pakistan: Mehbooba Mufti"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><em>Reiterates her call for dialogue between India, Pakistan and people of Jammu and Kashmir<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Kupwara, Feb 21<\/em><em>: Terming the killings in Kashmir in the past 30-years as unfortunate, former chief minister and People&#8217;s Democratic Party president, Mehbooba Mufti Sunday said that there is a dire need for dialogue with people of J&amp;K and Pakistan while the central government is unmoved by the killings here. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mehbooba Sunday visited the house of the slain cop in Zurhama village in north Kashmir&#8217;s Kupwara district along with other party leaders to express sympathies with the bereaved family members. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Talking to reporters, Mufti as per the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that it&#8217;s very unfortunate that Kashmiris are killing one another for the past 30 years while the central government is unmoved. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She reiterated that a peaceful solution can only be found by initiating dialogue with the people of Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She said that recently China encroached on &#8220;our land and killed more than 20 of our Jawans by beating them but the positive point is talks are underway with them and the solution is nearing.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mehbooba said that Kashmir has become the ring of war for both India and Pakistan and people from both sides are losing their lives including the commoners and security forces. &#8220;Both war and gun are no solution to anything be it of a militant or security forces,&#8221; she said. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While batting for a dialogue, Mehbooba said that like other parts of the world both India and Pakistan must find a permanent solution by initiating dialogue. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Both militancy and bloodshed reduced when talks were held with Pakistan back in 2003 and 2004. So there is a need to end this all and initiate a dialogue process,&#8221; Mehbooba said\u2014(KNO)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reiterates her call for dialogue between India, Pakistan and people of Jammu and Kashmir Kupwara, Feb 21: Terming the killings in Kashmir in the past 30-years as unfortunate, former chief minister and People&#8217;s Democratic Party president, Mehbooba Mufti Sunday said that there is a dire need for dialogue with people of J&amp;K and Pakistan while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36821","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\/36821","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=36821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36821\/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=36821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}