Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah has completely nullified the ongoing freedom struggle in Kashmir. The leader has hardly stressed upon the dialogue between India and Pakistan.
In conversation with India Today journalist, he said “Kashmir is never going to seek freedom nor would the boundaries change by any sort of resistance”, he said.
Showing concern over the Kashmir issue, the NC patron said that Kashmir issue would only be solved by dialogues between India and Pakistan.”The unrest in Kashmir and Pakistan would never be fruitful so the better option is to have peace talks with the neighboring country,” he said.
Farooq Abdullah admitted that one thing is absolutely clear that borders won’t change even if countries are eager to change it. Abdullah said this in a programme titled ‘A Conversation on Jammu and Kashmir’ with former Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) chief A S Dulat, who has also authored a book titled ‘Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years’ last night.
The former chief minister addressed a large number of people and responded to their questions in a different whole. “The truth is, Kashmir is never going to be part of Pakistan, whether Farooq Abdullah lives or dies. It is never going to happen in many centuries to come. So let us draw a different friendship. Come and enjoy Gulmarg, Pehlgam and the gardens Mughals made. Come and enjoy the Kashmiri dishes we cook. Give something to us as tourists.”
“I would love to see the day I can drive right through to Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore. My grandfather, my uncle are buried in Lahore. I cannot go there. When I die you can not stop my soul from going there.”
Referring to partition, Abdullah said that a number of innocent people had died on both sides.