[Reader-list] GUILT MEHBOOBA DENY TO ATTEND MEETING

[Bipin Trivedi]

Mehbooba denied to attend all party meet in Kashmir. This proves guilt of
her and was knowingly keep mum of this whole stone pelting episode. This
proves that she is head of the separatists there in valley. 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mehbooba-says-no-to-PM-on-Kashmir-a
ll-party-meet/articleshow/6154958.cms

SRINAGAR: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti stood her
ground on Sunday and turned down Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's request to
her to attend the all-party meeting called on Monday by Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah over the violence in Jammu and Kashmir. 

"It was very kind of the prime minister to call me. I have deep regard for
the PM. He advised us to attend the meeting. But it was painful to convey my
inability to attend the meeting," Mehbooba told reporters, a day after
Manmohan Singh called her urging her to reconsider her refusal to attend the
meeting. 

She said the situation in the Kashmir Valley was "so bad that nothing at the
level of the state government, that has been discredited, will help...
unless there is a bigger initiative which will be taken seriously by the
people who are caught in a prison like situation". 

"I told the PM to excuse us. But we are looking forward to a bigger
initiative from him," she said, but didn't elaborate. 

She alleged that the Omar Abdullah government was trying to hide its
"failures" by convening such a meeting after taking all the decisions that
"he shouldn't have taken". 

"They have used excessive force to suppress the anger. And he projects
himself like the only nationalist (in Kashmir)." 

The PDP chief said the meeting was a "damage control exercise" aimed to
hoodwink the international community. 

"I have requested the prime minister to intervene and put forward four
points," she said, adding media curbs in the Valley should be lifted, the
army should be recalled, and the crackdown launched by the state government
should be put to an end.