While maintaining that reconciliation with Pakistan was the only option for lasting peace in Jammu and Kashmir, the Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Friday said he was surprised why PM Modi’s didn’t mention it during his rally in Srinagar on Nov 7.
“Reconciliation with Pakistan is my government’s agenda, and we cannot force it on union government,” Mufti said while replying to journalists who questioned the silence of Prime Ministers Modi on Pakistan during his recent rally.
“I don’t know why PM skipped Pakistan issue from his speech, even in our personal chat I apprised him about peculiarity of Pakistan and its effects in Kashmir and also about Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s initiatives of offering friendships to neighbouring country,” he said.
“In the end, it is PM’s own choice whether to touch any subject or not; I’m not a dictator who will dictate all things to him,” he said.