She, however, called for reaching out to the people of Jammu and Kashmir through substantive political and economic measures to address anger and alienation and find a lasting solution to the problems confronting the State."Ms. "I appreciate and salute the people of all the regions for not allowing the situation to be communalised by such diabolic elements," she said, seeking cooperation of people in maintaining peace and normalcy in the State. Was anything achieved there " she asked, adding violence brings only destruction, nothing else.
The Chief Minister said that the vast majority of people in Kashmir is peace loving and wants "dignity and development". She said that three militants including Burhan Muzaffar Wani were killed in a gun battle on July 8 and it was nothing new as encounters and killing of militants was going on in Kashmir since the eruption of militancy in early 1990s. She reiterated that violence can’t achieve anything."Ms Mufti was speaking at a function in winter capital Jammu, where Union finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Sunday that the government will not yield to stone-pelting mobs in Kashmir but will deal firmly with them. They then tried to raise the issues of separate colonies for former soldiers and Kashmiri Pandits but failed again," she said. We shall have to ponder over how long we are going to allow this self destruction to continue " she said.The Chief Minister said that the political leadership in New Delhi and within the State must jointly work towards initiating the confidence building measures to respond to the people’s innermost yearning for peace with dignity. Mufti said that solution can only be found through democratic and political means involving engagement and dialogue.Reiterating that violence in any form only brings miseries to the people and is not a means to seek resolution of problems, Ms."Our children are today getting killed or maimed, our social fabric is slipping into disorder, economy is in shambles, educational sector has suffered immensely, tourism inflow is zero, shopkeepers are not able to do business, industrial units are shut, development process has come to a halt and people are feeling suffocated.To make the government’s resolve not to budge on the issue more obvious, he said, "They (stone-pelters) are not ‘satyagrahis’ but aggressors.She said that those behind the ongoing turmoil in the Valley started trouble in 2008 and then again in 2010 following a fake encounter in which three locals were killed in the Macheal sector along the LoC. Do not see all Kashmiris with the same eye. If a police post manned by 10 personnel is attacked by 2,000 stone-pelters, it is an attack, but some people do not realise it."I want to make an appeal to the Centre. She also said that certain quarters are not happy with the PDP-BJP coalition in the State and they too have been out to unsettle the alliance.The Chief Minister said the people of the State, irrespective of their age, gender, status or the political affiliation, have been suffering the disastrous consequences of the turmoil and they have to be retrieved from this quagmire, sooner the better.
Without mentioning anyone by name, she said those who do not want peace in Kashmir are inviting youths to indulge in violence for their vested interests. He added the government will make no compromise on the security and integrity of the country, and with those who indulge in violence. She added, "We shall have to reinforce our resolve to work through peaceful means and through public participation towards resolution of the problems and restoration of peace in the State. "Time has come for the State’s political leadership, cutting across the divide, to work towards retrieving the people of Jammu and Kashmir, with honuor and dignity, from the political uncertainties they are engulfed in for the past seven decades," she said.Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday asked the Centre not to see all Kashmiris through the security prism, and said most people in the Valley are peace-loving.."After I took over, they tried to start trouble on the pretext of an alleged rape incident in Handwara (Kupwara district) but failed. "The prevailing painful situation in Kashmir necessitates reaching out to all shades of the political opinion in the State and initiating substantive political and economic measures to revive and consolidate the peace and resolution process," she said. They want to open their shops, they want to send their wards to school, they want to come out of the fear-psychosis they are forced into," she said, adding that the Centre should take care of this majority of the peace-loving people in Kashmir and reach out to them.
"The renewed trust people of the State have time and again reposed in the democratic institutions, offers an opportunity to work through peaceful and reconciliatory means towards addressing all the dimensions of the Kashmir issue in a manner that balances and promotes enduring political and economic stability in the State," she said and added that her government visualizes a space of dignity, opportunity and prosperity for the peace-loving people of Jammu and Kashmir. "Guns went into China synthetic leather fabrics Factory Afghanistan, Syria and Russia. "But a section of people got an opportunity to rake up the issue and put peaceful Kashmir on boil," she said adding that it was tragic to note that not only have scores of youth been killed but the mayhem has also forced thousands of people to flee Kashmir to safeguard the future of their children.