CM Mehbooba trashes Farooq Abdullah’s demand for third party mediation on Kashmir

Anantnag/July,22: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday rubbished the statement of Farooq Abdullah in which he had asked India to seek help of US and China to mediate over the Kashmir issue.

“There can be no place for a third party intervention in Jammu and Kashmir,” Mufti told reporters in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.

“Let America and China mind their own business. Look at the places America has interfered in, be it Afghanistan, Syria, or Iraq. While China has its own problems to deal with in Tibet. We have the Lahore Declaration and the Shimla Agreement with us,” she said.

“When we have to resolve the issue together (India and Pakistan), then why do we need any third party”? Mufti asked