Srinagar
\nFormer Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Tuesday \u201csoldier and gun\u201d should not be the \u201conly symbol\u201d of India in the state and the country has to show its tolerant and liberal face to the people here.<\/p>\n
She said the country\u2019s democratic values can help it counter intolerance and sectarianism.\u201cIndia has to show its soft face to the people of Kashmir and solider and gun should not be the only symbol of the country in Jammu and Kashmir. It has to be its democratic values, tolerance and religious harmony which could provide a bulwark against the swirling tides of intolerance and sectarianism,\u201d Mufti, the PDP president, said.<\/p>\n
She was addressing party functionaries from Pattan, Shopian and Kulgam here.Mufti said muscular policy and the political patchwork \u201cwill not bring peace in the restive state\u201d and such approaches have \u201cmiserably failed to yield positive results\u201d in the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis muscular approach will not take us anywhere as this has been tried for many decades and has not yielded any positive outcome. It is unfortunate that some people still believe in the efficacy of these methods and are trying to repeat the old mistakes which will be meaningless and will prove counter-productive,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The former chief minister said the leadership in the country and the opinion makers will have to rise above \u201cpartisan considerations and ideological differences\u201d to address the \u201catmosphere of hate and intolerance\u201d and rediscover the inclusive India which made Jammu and Kashmir to throw in its lot with the Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Srinagar Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Tuesday \u201csoldier and gun\u201d should not be the \u201conly symbol\u201d of India in the state and the country has to show its tolerant and liberal face to the people here. She said the country\u2019s democratic values can help it counter intolerance and sectarianism.\u201cIndia has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47895,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47893\/revisions\/47895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}