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India Has No Guts To Take Back Pakistani Kashmir: Farooq Abdullah
Farooq Abdullah addresses supporters during an election rally. Photo credit: ROUF BHAT/AFP/GettyImages
Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah, created another controversy on Friday (25 November 2016) as he taunted the central government by saying Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) is not a personal property to be inherited. The National Conference leader questioned India’s claim on PoK and said that it isn’t India’s paternal property. “Kya yeh tumare baap ka hai (Is this your fathers’ property),” Abdullah was quoted as saying by News 18.
Addressing a rally in Kishtwar district, the Abdullah said India lacked the guts to take back parts of Jammu and Kashmir now ‘under Pakistani control’.
“PoK is presently under Pakistan occupation. It is not the personal property of India so that it could make a claim over it like an inherited property of forefathers,” Abdullah said. Pakistan is one of the stakeholders, he stated, adding that the government will have no option but to start talks with Pakistan.
In another controversial statement last month, Abdullah had said that Kashmir is an integral part of the ‘Hindu Rahsrta’. A Congress ally, Abdullah served as India’s Minister of New and Renewable Energy in Manmohan Singh’s government.
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