Need to engage all including separatists on Kashmir issue,

The National Conference(NC) leader Farooq Abdullah today said the Centre cannot resolve Kashmir issue unilaterally and there was a need to engage all stake-holders, including the separatists.
"I want to remind Home Minister Rajnath Singh that the issues in Kashmir cannot be resolved unilaterally by New Delhi. Putting Hurriyat leaders under house arrest or under detention will precipitate the already fragile situation rather than solving anything," Abdullah said.
He claimed that the separatists were as usual on their way to Pakistan Embassy in New Delhi to attend the Pakistan Day celebrations but the action of the government to put them behind bars will "compound the stalemate in Kashmir".

Addressing a joint election meeting of his party and ally Congress in central Kashmir's Ganderbal district, Abdullah also targeted rival PDP, claiming was "unleashing an unprecedented crackdown on separatist leaders at the behest of its masters in New Delhi".
Abdullah, who is contesting the bypoll to Srinagar Lok Sabha seat asked the people to express their disapproval against "political bigots and hypocrites".
The NC president said he had expressed apprehensions during 2014 Parliamentary and Assembly elections about PDP, notwithstanding its pretentious anti-BJP campaign.

Time has proved me right and vindicated my stand, he said referring to the PDP's alliance with the BJP, Abdullah said as he asked the voters to punish the ruling party.

Mocking PDP s slogan of 'Goli Se Nahi Boli Se' , Abdullah said the ruling party made innocent youth fodder of their cannons.
Continuing his attack, Abdullah alleged that the "PDP is aligned to such forces, which are persecuting Muslims across the country by tainting them as anti-nationals."
An onerous responsibility has now been cast upon the people to choose between forces inimical to Kashmir and those who have all along offered sacrifices, he claimed.