{"id":443,"date":"2014-03-06T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/kashmir-cant-survive-as-independent-nation-taj\/"},"modified":"2014-03-06T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T14:22:00","slug":"kashmir-cant-survive-as-independent-nation-taj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kashmir can\u2019t survive as independent nation\u2019: Taj"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b>Srinagar:<\/b>&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">State Health Minister and senior Congress leader Taj Mohi-u-Din<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">&nbsp;Thursday&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">said that Kashmir can\u2019t survive as an independent nation as it lacks self-sufficiency and resources.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Interacting with youth at a hotel in Srinagar, Taj Mohi-u-Din said that Kashmir is completely dependent on India and it not self-sufficient which could help it to survive as an independent nation. \u201cThose separatist groups or people who seek independence from India must bear in mind that Kashmir is not self-sufficient and it survives on the funds provided by India. I have raised this issue repeatedly even with some of the Hurriyat leaders on different occasions and they had no answer to it,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">According to CNS, Taj Mohi-u-Din said that for any independent nation it is necessary to be self-sufficient. \u201cWe need Rs 33,000 crores per year for our survival which comes from the Government of India while the total income that our State generates is only Rs 6,000 crores. For more than five lakh employees, we need Rs 18,000 crores to meet their salaries and all this money comes from New Delahi. We must understand that we are not self-sufficient and in case of \u2018Azadi\u2019 we have to lock all our hospitals, educational institutions and government offices,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Taj Mohi-u-Din appealed the youth to be positive, realistic and future oriented. \u201cYouth of Valley has opened their eyes in the shade of gun. Militancy has ruined our beautiful Valley and time has come we move towards peace and prosperity,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The interaction was organized Congress leader Kadfeen Choudhary to create awareness about drug menace prevailing in Kashmir Valley. (CNS)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:&nbsp;State Health Minister and senior Congress leader Taj Mohi-u-Din&nbsp;Thursday&nbsp;said that Kashmir can\u2019t survive as an independent nation as it lacks self-sufficiency and resources. Interacting with youth at a hotel in Srinagar, Taj Mohi-u-Din said that Kashmir is completely dependent on India and it not self-sufficient which could help it to survive as an independent nation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}