Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah, who had been harping for greater autonomy for Kashmir, said that an independent Kashmir is not feasible.
Abdullah was reacting to a controversial statement attributed to Arundhati Roy that Kashmiris want liberation from India as much as India wants separation from Kashmir.
"This would lead to another division of the country," Farooq told the media persons. "As I said autonomy is the only workable solution to the problem. We need greater autonmy and setup autonomous hill councils in Jammu, Poonch and Rajouri," he said
Abdullah and his son Omar Abdulla had been spitting fire on allotment of land to the shrine board for setting up temporary facilities to the pilgrims who visit holy cave of Amarnath.
"We are fighting for our land," Omar Abdullah had said in his speech while speaking in favour of Manmohan Singh's government.
In last few weeks their tempers have cooled down while Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who has never been able to achieve his ambition of joining hands with the Pakistanis, realize that if they don't get support of the people then the Centre may not talk to them as and when the talks are resumed.
Former president of All Party Hurriyat Conference Abdul Gani Bhatt told
rediff.com from his residence in Srinagar that he had no idea as to what is going on in the valley. "Believe me I have not an iota of idea of what is going on," he said.
Bhatt agreed with the suggestion that while