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Separatists like Geelani will die an Indian: Farooq Abdullah
NEW DELHI: Kashmir will never secede from India and those who dream of a merger with Pakistan, including hardliner Syed Ali Geelani, will die as Indians, union minister Farooq Abdullah said on Thursday. "Kashmir will remain a part of India. Geelani will die as an Indian. And so will others who dream of merging with Pakistan," said Abdullah, the minister of new and renewable energy.
The Lashkar-e-Taiba is one of the terrorist groups whose cadres, mostly foreign mercenaries, are fighting Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir. The outfit is allegedly backed by Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI).
Abdullah said the LeT was a predominant threat to the world. "If the world has to survive, the world has to destroy the complete network of the LeT." He added: "You have to take strong decisive steps to get rid of the Lashkar. Mere talking won't help."
He was asked if he was responsible for pushing the Kashmiri youth to pick up the gun following alleged mass rigging in the 1987 assembly elections, won by a coalition led by Abdullah's party.
The former chief minister denied that the polls were manipulated in the favour of the National Conference-Congress alliance then. "It is not so. Some of my ministers lost the election. Don't blame me for sending the boys across for armed training," he said.
He said Sallahuddin, the top Kashmiri militant commander now based in Pakistan, indeed lost the election but "Farooq Abdullah is not responsible for the Kashmir trouble".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...dian-Farooq-Abdullah/articleshow/10775604.cms
NEW DELHI: Kashmir will never secede from India and those who dream of a merger with Pakistan, including hardliner Syed Ali Geelani, will die as Indians, union minister Farooq Abdullah said on Thursday. "Kashmir will remain a part of India. Geelani will die as an Indian. And so will others who dream of merging with Pakistan," said Abdullah, the minister of new and renewable energy.
The Lashkar-e-Taiba is one of the terrorist groups whose cadres, mostly foreign mercenaries, are fighting Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir. The outfit is allegedly backed by Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI).
Abdullah said the LeT was a predominant threat to the world. "If the world has to survive, the world has to destroy the complete network of the LeT." He added: "You have to take strong decisive steps to get rid of the Lashkar. Mere talking won't help."
He was asked if he was responsible for pushing the Kashmiri youth to pick up the gun following alleged mass rigging in the 1987 assembly elections, won by a coalition led by Abdullah's party.
The former chief minister denied that the polls were manipulated in the favour of the National Conference-Congress alliance then. "It is not so. Some of my ministers lost the election. Don't blame me for sending the boys across for armed training," he said.
He said Sallahuddin, the top Kashmiri militant commander now based in Pakistan, indeed lost the election but "Farooq Abdullah is not responsible for the Kashmir trouble".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...dian-Farooq-Abdullah/articleshow/10775604.cms
