Former Chief Minister for Indian Occupied Kashmir Omar Abdullah on Saturday said that the unrest in Kashmir cannot be blamed on Pakistan but was a result of mistakes made by New Delhi for not engaging with the people.
“To blame Pakistan alone for the political situation or the current unrest in the valley is a distortion of the truth,” he said adding that the people of the Indian Occupied Kashmir had sentiments against the Indian government even when there was no external interference.
These sentiments, he stated, were a result of the ‘historic blunders and broken promises by successive dispensations’ in New Delhi.
“This political sentiment forms the basis of the state’s special status that has since been eroded by extra-constitutional machinations,” Omar said.
The former chief minister stressed that the current situation was because of the incumbent Indian government’s refusal to even acknowledge that a problem existed in Kashmir.
