Special status will be back with full honour: Muzafar Shah

Don’t underestimate the power of Article 370 and Power of the people of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh

Don’t underestimate the power of Article 370 and Power of the people of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh

Srinagar, July 17 (KNS) : Rejecting the assertions of former RAW Chief AS Dulat that there should be dialogue between Srinagar and Delhi only, Awami National Conference senior vice president Muzafar Shah Saturday said that dialogue between India and Pakistan is the need of the hour to end the 70-year-old imbroglio over Kashmir. 

  "Kashmir is a nuclear flashpoint. There has always been the threat of war looming over Kashmir. It’s not Pakistan only, now China has entered into the fray. The solution to Kashmir problem lies in a peaceful dialogue,” Shah told reporters in Srinagar.

   In a statement to Kashmir News Service (KNS), he said he welcomes the statement of AS Dulat that there should be dialogue but at the same time he disagrees that dialogue should be only with Srinagar and New Delhi.

  “So much blood has shed and now it is imperative to start a dialogue with Pakistan to end the crisis,” Shah said. 

Shah castigated AS Dulat for claiming that Article 370 has gone and it won’t come into life again. “Why Dulat has made such remarks when the matter is subjudice lying before the Supreme Court of India. Let me remind Mr Dulat that no power on earth can snatch Article 370 from us. It was read down unconstitutionally,” he said.

He said: “Don’t underestimate the power of people. Article 370 will be back with full honour. Those who claim that it is gone are living in a fool’s paradise,” he said and demanded restoration of full statehood. 

   In response to a question, Shah said BJP always played politics over Kashmir. “This party destroyed Jammu and Kashmir,” he said. (KNS) 

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