{"id":4353,"date":"2014-07-04T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2014-07-04T15:03:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:03:01","slug":"address-delhi-srinagar-trust-deficit-mirwaiz-tells-goi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=4353","title":{"rendered":"Address Delhi- Srinagar trust deficit: Mirwaiz tells GOI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018I requested Pak not to invite separatists during Nawaz\u2019s India visit\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Said Kashmir neither an integral part nor a jugular vein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>Days after the Al-Qaeda threat made headlines in Kashmir, Chairman Huriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq\u00a0<span>Friday<\/span>\u00a0remarked that Kashmir problem is not about waging Jihad as the same is a political problem and not a religious one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a religious head, I will say the problem of Kashmir is not religious; it is not a problem of Hindus vs Muslims; or Muslim Kashmir vs a Hindu India. It is a political problem. It is not about waging jihad. The problem has religious undertones, but it\u2019s a political problem,\u201d said Mirwaiz during an interview with a National newspaper. Mirwaiz added, \u201cOur position is that there must be an attempt to re-unify all five regions \u2014 not just the areas under Indian control but also those under Pakistani control,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>About Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif\u2019s visit to India during the swearing in ceremony of Modi, Mirwaiz that he personally approached Pakistan\u2019s High Commissioner in New Delhi and requested him not to arrange any meeting with the separatists at this juncture. \u201cLet Pakistan and India take the (peace) process forward. We don\u2019t want to play spoilsport, that everyone says Pakistan and India met for a special occasion and now Hurriyat has come and spoiled the occasion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kashmir\u2019s chief religious cleric stated that he doesn\u2019t want people to die on the streets and that the ongoing resistnace movement has been graduated from violence to non-violence. \u201cThe fact is you might not see protests, but this movement has graduated to a level where it is defined in the psychology and soul of every Kashmiri.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mirwaiz maintained further, \u201cKashmiris have to protest all the time and get killed just to convey the message that everything is not normal. By this mindset, New Delhi is pushing people to the wall. They are telling the pro-freedom parties that there should be militancy and protests again. But we don\u2019t want people to die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the UPA government has had the lot of opportunities to resolve Kashmir but all time at that time was wasted with the divide being strengthened further between Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.\u201d They had many opportunities, with Pakistan, with leaders here to move forward. Cross-LoC initiatives could have been built up, but rather than that, it\u2019s more a politics of division. Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh are at loggerheads with each other.\u201d Mirwaiz stated that Huriyat can be a bridge vis-\u00e0-vis Delhi-Srinagar-Islamabad if India wants to reach out and that when a positive start has been made by the Pakistan, Delhi- Srinagar trust deficit must be addressed and holistic approach be taken.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I requested Pak not to invite separatists during Nawaz\u2019s India visit\u2019 Said Kashmir neither an integral part nor a jugular vein Srinagar:\u00a0Days after the Al-Qaeda threat made headlines in Kashmir, Chairman Huriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq\u00a0Friday\u00a0remarked that Kashmir problem is not about waging Jihad as the same is a political problem and not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4353","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\/4353","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=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}