{"id":48704,"date":"2021-10-14T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T04:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/kashmir-will-remain-part-of-india-even-if-i-am-killed-farooq-abdullah\/"},"modified":"2021-10-14T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T04:01:10","slug":"kashmir-will-remain-part-of-india-even-if-i-am-killed-farooq-abdullah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=48704","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir will remain part of India even if I am killed: Farooq Abdullah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Says people of Kashmir have to be courageous and fight the killers together<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> Kashmir will never become Pakistan as we are a part of India and will remain so even if I am killed, National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah said here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at a condolence meeting for Supinder Kaur \u2013 the fallen principal of a government school in Eidgah who was shot dead by militants on October 7 \u2013 at a gurdwara here, Abdullah said the people of Kashmir have to be courageous and fight the killers together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have to fight these beasts. This (Kashmir) will never become Pakistan, remember it. We are a part of India and we will remain a part of India come what may. They cannot change it even if they shoot me,\u201d Abdullah, the Member of Lok Sabha from Srinagar, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Expressing grief over Kaur\u2019s killing, he said the Sikh community did not leave the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s when others left due to fear and appealed to them to not get scared now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have to keep our morale high and be courageous, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe all have to fight them together with courage and not be afraid. You (Sikhs) were the only community which remained here when everyone left. I am proud of the fact that you did not leave from here. Killing a teacher who was teaching young students does not serve Islam. They were serving the devil,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Talking to reporters outside the gurdwara, the NC president said: \u201cThey (militants) will never succeed and will fail in their plans. But, we all \u2013 Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Christians\u2014have to stand together to fight them\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abdullah said there is a \u201cstorm of hate\u201d across India and communities \u2013 Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs \u2013 \u201care being divided\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis divisive politics has to be stopped, otherwise India will cease to exist. If we have to save India, then we all have to live together and only then will it move forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked about leader Devender Rana quitting the NC and joining the BJP, Abdullah said: \u201cPeople come and go. It is not a big deal\u201d. \u2014PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says people of Kashmir have to be courageous and fight the killers together Srinagar: Kashmir will never become Pakistan as we are a part of India and will remain so even if I am killed, National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah said here on Wednesday. Speaking at a condolence meeting for Supinder Kaur \u2013 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48704","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\/48704","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=48704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}