KL Report

SRINAGAR

The row triggered by pandit resettlement in valley is getting intense after Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Saturday told Pakistan that it should stop interfering in India’s internal matters.

“Pakistan should worry about themselves,” Singh said. “We cannot accept even any other nation’s interference in India’s internal matters.”

Singh’s reaction comes two days after Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasnin Aslam opposed pandit township plans in Kashmir.

“Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory,” she said. “Pending the final settlement through plebiscite, the two countries have administrative responsibilities in the disputed territory.” Any effort to create special townships, she said, or to alter the demographic composition of Jammu and Kashmir, “is in violation of UN Security Council resolutions”.

On Friday, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley too dismissed Pakistan’s remarks.

Notably, a row started after HM Singh told Parliament that J-K CM Mufti Muhammad Sayeed has promised him to identify 400 kanals of land for pandit resettlement.

Though the state government quickly said that it is mulling to make inclusive township with mixed population and not exclusive, but the statement couldn’t contain raging reactions.

While separatist issued sit-in against the move, lawmakers Er Raseed and Hakim Yasin asked Mufti to come clear on the matter.

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