13 August,2016 10:27 AM IST | | Agencies
At an all-party meeting on Kashmir, the Prime Minister said there will be ‘no compromise on national security’
New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi yesterday said that the government was ready to address "grievances" of all sections of people in Jammu and Kashmir as per the Constitution but made it clear that there cannot be any compromise with the nation's integrity.
Police detain members of Awami Itihaad Party and MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid during a protest against the civilian killings in Srinagar yesterday. Pic/PTI
Modi, who chaired an all-party meeting on Kashmir, also termed cross-border terrorism supported by Pakistan as the root cause of turbulence in the Valley. During the marathon four-hour-long meeting, some opposition parties asked the government to take few confidence-building measures like putting an end to the use of pellet guns and relaxing AFSPA in parts of Kashmir.
The PM also used the platform to hit out at Pakistan for its screwed human rights violations in Pakistan-occupied- Kashmir (PoK) and Balochistan and said it will have to answer to international community for the atrocities it was committing there. "There cannot be any compromise on national security. But we have to win the confidence of the people in J&K," Modi said.
He also reiterated India's stand that it considered PoK a part of Jammu and Kashmir.
