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New Delhi:
It is time to tell Pakistan "in one voice" that it should return to
India parts of Kashmir under its control and the area it has gifted
to China, union minister and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister
Farooq Abdullah said Thursday.
Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on the unrest in the
Kashmir Valley, Abdullah, who heads the state's ruling National
Conference party, said he was surprised none of the MPs mentioned
about the parts of Jammu and Kashmir under Pakistani and Chinese
control.
"Today, I am surprised that nobody has talked about Kashmir under
Pakistan occupation which they call Azad Kashmir, nobody talked
about Northern Areas of Gilgit Baltistan and Skardu, nobody talked
about the territory Pakistan gave away to China," Abdullah said.
He asserted that it was the time to tell Pakistan "in one voice that
it should return to us the part of Kashmir it has occupied and given
away to China".
Pitching hard for the restoration of autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir,
the former chief minister said if Kashmir has to remain an integral
part of India "you will have to open your hearts to us".
"Kashmir has not acceded to India by force... It chose to become a
part of India belonging to Gandhi and Nehru," he recalled.
"But today, I regret that when we open our hearts to you, you don't
even recognise us...Every corner of our heart has India written over
it. When we brought the autonomy resolution, I thought we will join
hearts. But you let me down," he said, referring to the National
Conference's autonomy resolution of 2000 which was trashed by the
then Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance
government.
"(Then prime minister Atal Bihari) Vajpayee told me he had not even
read the autonomy. I pleaded before him to read it as it is all well
within the ambit of the constitution," Abdullah said.
"You have to win the hearts of Kashmiris...People who have laid down
their lives don't want jobs or money. They want justice," he told
the house, with folded hands.
He said the role of the media in the Kashmir Valley was
disappointing and the newspapers published from Srinagar were adding
fuel to the fire.
Abdullah looked upwards at the press gallery in the house and again
folded his hands pleading to the journalists sitting there to be
objective and report facts from the Kashmir Valley.
The renewed unrest in the Kashmir Valley since June 11 has seen 64
people killed, mostly in firing by security forces, during clashes.
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