Lauding the police crackdown on drug peddlers across Jammu and Kashmir, top separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq emphasised the need for collective action against drug addiction.
"India and Pakistan have a real opportunity at the upcoming SCO Summit to break the ice and engage constructively. Hope they heed to it," said Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
Mirwaiz Kashmir and chairman of the Hurriyat Conference, Umar Farooq, on Friday said that the conflict between India and Pakistan persists due to unrelenting claims of both countries on Kashmir.
In a significant development in Kashmir, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a prominent pro-freedom cleric, led Friday prayers after a hiatus of…
His supporters showered flower petals and raised slogans hailing the Hurriyat Conference chairman as he entered the Srinagar’s grand mosque.
Farooq, who was speaking at a seminar organised by the Hurriyat Conference in Srinagar said, "We are not against either the people of India or development. If India and Pakistan initiate a dialogue, we are ready to support it, but India must first accept the basic reality that there can be no military solution to the Kashmir dispute."
Malik's sister on Saturday in a statement said that Malik was on hunger strike ever since the NIA shifted him to Delhi and following his deteriorating health was shifted to a hospital.
As a strategy to prevent the division of their votes, the NC and PDP have not fielded their candidates against the Congress on both Lok Sabha seats of the Jammu division.
Kupwara, which has many infiltration routes, had registered 30.8% polling till 1 pm, while Bandipura segment registered 20.9%.
The separatists called for a boycott of the subsequent four phases of polling.
