No talks should be held with Pakistan till it stops terror attacks: Farooq Abdullah

PTI Srinagar: Former chief minister and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Monday lashed out at Pakistan for perpetrating terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, saying Islamabad will have to stop terror incidents here if it wants to have friendly relations with India. Abdullah said there can be no talks between New Delhi and Islamabad till the neighbouring country stops killings in Jammu and Kashmir. “I do not know what action India should take, that is the domain of the central government. It is a problem for us and we have been going through it for years now.

I have been seeing it for 30 years now. I have told them many times to stop it but their thinking is like that only. “How can there be talks? You kill our innocent people and then you call for talks. First stop the killings,” Abdullah said while commenting on the terror attack at a construction site in Ganderbal district on Sunday. The former chief minister said the attack was a painful incident as it led to killing of poor people who had come here for earning a livelihood. “It is a very painful incident. Poor labourers who come here for a livelihood so that they can feed their families back home. These beasts martyred them. There was one of our doctors with them who serve the people.

He also lost his life,” Abdullah said. Seven persons? one local doctor and six non-local labourers were killed while five others sustained injuries in the attack. Abdullah said if the terrorists think they can establish Pakistani writ in Jammu and Kashmir by indulging in such acts, they are mistaken. “What will these beasts get? Do they think that they will establish Pakistan here? We have been seeing it for many years that they (terrorists) are coming from there. We are trying to settle this problem so that we can come out of our difficulties. I want to tell the rulers of Pakistan that if they really want friendship with India, they should stop this. ashmir will not become (part of) Pakistan,”he said.