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Mehbooba Mufti calls for de-escalation of tension on Indo-Pak border Says J&K people suffer most due to Indo-Pak skirmishes 10/5/2016 10:45:10 PM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Oct 5: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said that escalation of violence on the Indo-Pak border leads to miseries of people of Jammu & Kashmir. She said there is a need to deescalate the tension so that peace prevails in the state. The chief minister made these remarks during her discussion with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as she called on the PM at New Delhi in the afternoon today. Both Mehbooba and Modi discussed the overall situation in Jammu & Kashmir especially in the backdrop of ongoing unrest and the recent tension between India and Pakistan. An official spokesman said that the CM called on the PM and discussed the overall situation in Jammu & Kashmir. In the meeting which lasted for nearly an hour, the Chief Minister discussed with the Prime Minister the law and order situation and the situation along the borders in view of the escalation of tensions in the region. While expressing grave concern over the prevailing situation along the borders the chief minister called for de-escalation of the tension as, according to her, people in Jammu & Kashmir have been the worst sufferers of the hostility and confrontation in the region. "Today also hundreds of families have to migrate from the border areas of the state and they suffer immense hardships because of the prevailing tense situation in the region," she said and stressed the need for reviving the peace and reconciliation process in the region. Mehbooba urged the Prime Minister to reach out to the people of Jammu & Kashmir with tangible confidence building measures to address their political, economic and developmental concerns. She urged the Prime Minister to view the current situation in the state as an opportunity and start a dialogue process with the people of Jammu & Kashmir. "I hope that the Prime Minister, who has received such a big mandate, takes this situation as an opportunity and reaches out to the people of Jammu and Kashmir by starting a productive dialogue process to end the miseries of the people in the state," said the chief minister. Mehbooba told the Prime Minister said that the people in Kashmir have gone through enormous agony and pain and the time has come to reach out to them and apply a 'balm' to their wounds through ample initiatives at political, economic and developmental levels. The chief minister also discussed the overall developmental scenario in the state and the measures being taken to expedite the implementation of projects under the Rs. 80,000 crore Prime Minister's Developmental Programme.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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