{"id":9217,"date":"2017-04-03T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=9217"},"modified":"2017-04-03T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T03:53:08","slug":"act-as-statesman-take-brave-steps-geelani-tells-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=9217","title":{"rendered":"Act as statesman, take brave steps, Geelani tells Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>The separatist group led by Syed Ali Geelani today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to act as a statesman and take brave steps that would pave the way for the \u201coverall development of India and peace in the subcontinent\u201d.The statement issued by the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference also termed Kashmir as a \u201cserious and sensitive political issue\u201d.\u201cThe construction of roads or inaugurations of tunnels are of lesser importance. However, it is hard to come up to the expectations and accept hard realities,\u201d the Hurriyat said, referring to the PM\u2019s inauguration of the Chenani-Nashri tunnel today. The party said the tunnel \u201cis a good step, however, it won\u2019t help or serve any substitute for the aspirations of youth\u201d.The separatist faction said the shutdown, called jointly by three separatist groups, including the faction led by Geelani, was an \u201ceye-opener and serves as a message that the Kashmir issue can\u2019t be solved or shelved through the cosmetic approach.\u201dIn a rare reconciliatory message, however, the separatist group asked the PM \u201cto take brave steps and act as statesman\u201d. \u201cThis will pave the way for the overall development in India and peace in the subcontinent. It will prove helpful for South Asia and India too will get rid of many complex problems being faced at home,\u201d it said.\u201cMr Modi has two options, either follow his predecessors with closed eyes or act as a statesman and make history by taking bold steps,\u201d it said. \u201cThere is nothing extraordinary in opening roads. Anybody can throw open these tracks and tunnels. However, realising realities and using wisdom for resolution needs extraordinary willpower and determination,\u201d it said.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0The separatist group led by Syed Ali Geelani today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to act as a statesman and take brave steps that would pave the way for the \u201coverall development of India and peace in the subcontinent\u201d.The statement issued by the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference also termed Kashmir as a \u201cserious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9217","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\/9217","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=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/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=9217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}