JAMMU: Former chief minister of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) Omar Abdullah on Saturday strongly called for talks between the National Security Advisors (NSA) of India and Pakistan to end ceasefire violations.
He was reacting to the ceasefire violations along working boundary over the last few weeks.
“I hope that Ajit Doval can pick up the phone and talk to his counterpart [Lieutenant General (r) Nasser Khan Janjua] in Pakistan to put an end to ceasefire violations,” he told reporters in Jammu.
“The ceasefire must hold. The shelling and violence on the working boundary and the Line of Control must end, and then hopefully India and Pakistan can take step towards normalising, what is otherwise an abnormal relationship,” he added.
Omar also took a dig on the “secret talks” between the NSAs of India and Pakistan in Thailand in view of the ceasefire violations. “We are told that NSA Ajit Doval had secret talks with the NSA of Pakistan in Bangkok. What are those talks about, if we cannot even maintain a ceasefire on the border. What are we talking about? Ultimately talks have to be about something”, he stated.
“There is a regular breakdown of the ceasefire. This is something that Delhi and Islamabad need to sort out,” he said.
Omar Abdullah further added that the National Conference always maintained that violence is not the solution to the problems of Jammu and Kashmir and the two countries need to talk each other.
