New political strategy needed to protect Kashmir’s core interests : Hakeem

Jammu: Chairman Peoples Democratic Front ( PDF) Hakeem Yaseen has said that like minded political parties should join hands to work out a new political strategy for securing safeguards to the coreinterests of the state.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Hakeem said that there was an urgent need to revisit political landscape of the state to safeguard it’s core interests adding that like minded political parties should join hands to device a realistic political strategy for the purpose. He said statehood of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir needs to be restored as early as possible besides protection of it’s domicile rights. He said the people of the state should not be exploited on false promises like past adding that the prevailing grim situation in the state was the outcome of was broken promises and false assurances given to the people of the state right from 1947 too date by the successive Central and puppet state governments. Hesaid need of the hour was to remove doubts from the minds of the people and instill a sense of trust among them. He said times have changed and people of the state understand that how they have been misled by the opportunistic political parties for thier petty vested interests. .He said onus lies on central leadership to rebuild trust among the people of the state through gaurantee to thier domicile rights and restoration of statehood status to the erstwhile state.. He said sentiments of the people of Kashmir have been severely hurt by downgrading the status of thier motherland to a Union Territory.