Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi today. "Pakistan has been openly trying to provoke and fuel tensions in Kashmir valley," Mehbooba Mufti told reporters after her meeting with PM Narendra Modi. She also added that "Prime Minister Narendra Modi like all of us is concerned about the situation in Kashmir. He wants the bloodshed to stop, wants state to come out of the turmoil". Pakistani leaders have criticised India over the unrest. For its part, India has accused Islamabad of interfering in New Delhi’s internal affairs and stoking tension in Kashmir.

 

“I want to tell Pakistan, if it has any sympathy for Kashmiris, it shouldn’t provoke them to attack police stations and save youth from being killed,” the chief minister said.  She also said that when our Home Minister Rajnath Singh went to Pakistan for SAARC meeting, Pakistan could have utilized the opportunity but it lost a golden chance in peace process. As Mufti visited the national capital, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, moderate separatist leader and the Valley’s chief cleric, was arrested in the morning and lodged in a jail. An all-party delegation will visit Kashmir in the first week of September in stepped up efforts by the government to end a wave of violence that claimed the life of another youth on Friday.