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Former J&K Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti connected Monday (June 15, 2026) called upon locals to amended Amarnath pilgrims and tourists astir the value of dialog connected Kashmir and combat the existent hatred authorities with warmth of hospitality.
Calling for Mahatma Gandhi-like satyagraha, Ms. Mufti said, “Kashmir remains a occupation successful the shadows due to the fact that of fearfulness of guns, batons and predominant raids (of information agencies). However, alternatively of stones and guns, satyagraha-style is the request of the hour. We request to dainty pilgrims similar household members and guarantee they go ambassadors of Kashmir and property for a dialogue”.
Ms. Mufti made the connection successful an code to locals successful southbound Kashmir’s Pahalgam, which volition big the yatra from July 3 this year.
Referring to alleged hatred crimes against Kashmiri students and shawl vendors successful mainland India, Ms. Mufti said,” The Amarnath Yatra is our accidental to decision the hatred and mistrust that has been dispersed astir Kashmir crossed India. Safeguarding the Yatra is not simply the work of information agencies, it is our corporate duty.
She urged a peaceful people’s inaugural to guarantee each Yatri feels welcomed, respected, and protected. “If each Yatri leaves with a affirmative experience, they volition transportation the existent communicative of Kashmir to each country of India, a communicative of warmth, humanity, coexistence, and the enduring tone of our people,” Ms. Mufti said.
Ms. Mufti said she wrote an unfastened missive to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah “to convene an all-party gathering and transportation the Prime Minister and the Home Minister to prosecute successful dialog with the governmental parties of J&K”.
“Omar Sahib rejected the idea. He did not adjacent respond to my letter. I privation radical to instrumentality this initiative. Even if the Government of India does not speech to them, they should prosecute with the radical of the country,” said Ms. Mufti.
