PDP asks Centre to revive Kashmir resolution process

Srinagar, Jan 2 (PTI) The People's Democratic Party
(PDP) Friday said the high voter turnout in the assembly
elections in India's frontier state of Jammu and Kashmir
should not be "misconstrued" and asked the Centre to revive
the Kashmir resolution process.

"Instead of getting complacent, the Centre should
seize the moment and revive the Kashmir resolution process
with renewed vigour both on the bilateral and internal
fronts," PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed told reporters here.

Emerging from a meeting of newly elected legislators
of the party, Sayeed said that it was the right opportunity to
re-initiate an inclusive dialogue process involving various
shades of the political opinion in the state to find an
amicable solution to the problem of Jammu and Kashmir.

People of the state have rejected violence and reposed
their faith in peaceful and democratic means for resolution of
their problems and this transformation has to be respected and
responded with substantive measures by New Delhi, he said.

"The country's leadership must now respond to this new
opportunity as any overt or covert effort to depoliticise
Kashmir would have dangerous fallout," he warned.

He also said that the people had given mandate to the
PDP agenda that reflects their true aspirations.

"Emerging as a strong regional force, there is a
decisive role ahead for the party in charting out a new
destiny for the state and its people," he added.

The leader stated that the PDP had laid a clear
roadmap for the peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue in
its self-rule document. PTI AMS
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