Srinagar, Feb 20 (GNS): Former Chief Minister and the PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday called for dialogue with Pakistan while asking New Delhi to think as to how long people of the Kashmir shall have to be “sacrificed”.
“How long police and other jawans get sacrificed? This is very big issue and it needs to be resolved so that people of Jammu and Kashmir live peacefully. See the young man was killed. He has two small kids. His father was killed at the age of 4. What will they do?,” Mehbooba said after visiting Logripora Aishmuqam area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district to express her sympathies with the bereaved family of a Police Constable Suhail Ahmad who was killed in the militant attack in the Baghat area of the city on Friday.
“Three police men were mercilessly killed yesterday within a few hours. The government of India should think about how long the people of J&K will continue to be sacrificed like this. Police and others jawans getting sacrificed,” she said, adding, “I think the entire central government and BJP should think regarding Kashmir and start a process of dialogue so that bloodshed ends in Jammu and Kashmir.
She said that people are getting killed “everyday”.
“The government should initiate dialogue whether here or with Pakistan but they should start the process. The government is repeatedly saying that Pakistan is creating violence here. At least start the dialogue for stopping the violence,” she said. “Even graveyards are full in Kashmir now,” she added as per a GNS correspondent.
Two policemen were killed in a militant attack in the Bhagat Barzulla area of Srinagar while an SPO was killed in a gunfight at Beerwah Budgam. (GNS)
