Professor Abdul Gani Bhatt took strong offence to the use of term separtist for Kashmiri leader Sajjad Lone. Lone is contesting elections from Baramula parliamentary constituency " Why call him a sepratist? If you want to give name to him he is a fellow Kashmiri who is trying his luck in elections. If you want to give him a name you could call him nationalist," Dr Bhatt argued Sajjad Lone was called a sepratist.
Bhatt said that such words were used to refer to them by people who wanted to make stories out of nothing. "To my mind Mushraff was far more serious in solving the Kashmir problem and together with Dr Singh, he would have gone down as a man who changed the course of history", Bhatt