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Chidambaram, Omar agree to push Kashmir peace roadmap
Friday February 04, 2011 11:52:42 AM,
IANS
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Jammu: Union Home
Minister P. Chidambaram met Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday
and the two agreed to draw up a roadmap for lasting peace in Jammu
and Kashmir. The former then reviewed the security situation in Kishtwar.
Abdullah hosted an hour-long breakfast meeting with the visiting
home minister who is on a two-day visit to the state from
Thursday.
Both Chidambaram and Abdullah, who have been advocating an "out of
the box solution" for Kashmir and also back efforts of the three
interlocutors on Kashmir, had a candid exchange of views, sources
said.
Kashmir saw violence by stone-pelting protesters in the summer of
2010 in which over 100 people died in firing by the security
forces, and both leaders were in favour of speeding up the process
for a solution acceptable to all three regions of the state.
Abdullah favoured opening more channels of communication with
people, especially separatists, and inject a sense of confidence
among the masses.
Accompanied by Abdullah, Chidambaram also held a security review
meeting in Kishtwar to "get a feel of the situation" in the
mountainous areas of the state and find out the viewpoint of the
people in the region on possible solutions for peace.
The meeting was attended by deputy commissioners and
superintendents of police of Kishtwar, Doda and Ramban districts -
the worst militancy affected areas in Jammu region of the state
and where people feel a disconnect with those in the plains of
Jammu and the Kashmir Valley.
Chidambaram is the first home minister to hold a security review
meeting of these mountainous districts in Kishtwar, which was
carved out of Doda district in July 2006.
The mountainous region has its boundaries with Ladakh, Himachal
Pradesh, Kashmir Valley and also with the plains of Jammu.
Most officers present said the "situation has improved and it is
stabilising and militants were on the run", according to sources.
But their biggest fear was the continuing infiltration from across
the border.
"If infiltration is checked on the borders, the militancy in the
mountains will die its own death," one officer is reported to have
told Chidambaram.
Chidambaram had met Governor N.N. Vohra Thursday night and also
senior leaders of the Congress who voiced apprehension over a
proposed reversal of central laws in Kashmir.
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