Impossible to normalise ties if Pak doesn't stop infiltration: Omar

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said it was impossible for India to normalise its relations with Pakistan till the neighbouring country does not stop infiltration and ceasefire violations.

He also said that calling the operation against holed up militants in Keran sector as "second Kargil" was a media hype.

"At least, it is through talks that Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) talked to (Pakistan Prime Minister) Nawaz Sharif in clear terms in New York and he said the situation should not remain as such and infiltration and ceasefire violations should stop.

"They reintroduced a mechanism for it--that the DGMOs of both the nations would talk to each other-- perhaps we will benefit from that," Omar told reporters here after teeing-off the 17th All India Police Golf Tournament at Royal Springs Golf Course.

The Chief Minister said, "However, thinking that the relations will get normalised in such a situation, that is impossible. We will surely talk, but the results that we want out of that dialogue, we cannot achieve those till such things (infiltration and ceasefire violations) are not stopped."

Advocating dialogue for solving issues even as there has been a spurt in ceasefire violations and infiltration attempts from across the Line of Control (LoC), Omar said both the countries should continue to hold talks as such attempts continued even when the two countries were not talking to each other.

"When there were no talks, was the infiltration not happening? It was going on continuously even then," he said.

The Chief Minister said as the winter approaches, the infiltration attempts increase and efforts are made to push in as many of them from across the LoC.