New Delhi will not agree on third party mediation on Kashmir: Sajjad Lone
Srinagar: Peoples Conference (PC) Chairman, Sajjad Lone Thursday said that solution to all issued lied in a dialogue process and hard measures “can only contain a problem and not resolve it”.
Lone, who was speaking at a function to welcome NC leaders into the party fold, said that history was witness that no issue could be settled without a dialogue. When you take hard measures, you can contain a problem and not resolve it. “Containment means the disease is there,” he said.
On the reports of US mediation to settle Kashmir issue, Lone said, “Everybody knows that New Delhi will never agree on third party intervention”.
“Whether third party mediation or bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan, either of the two are welcome steps rather than communicating to each other through violence,” he said.
Lone said the “best form of civilised way of resolving conflict would be to sit across the table and solve problems.”
Earlier, while addressing party workers, the PC chief said, the “destruction which has happened in the last 40 or 70 years on Article 370 need to be answered”.
“Let National Conference answer who eroded internal autonomy and diluted Article 370. It was Congress and the NC which are responsible for the erosion of autonomy of the state,” he added.
A PC spokesperson said that NC’s ex-incharge Charar-e-Sharief Assembly segment, Mushtaq Ahmad along with his 300 supporters joined the party on the occasion.
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