Omar showed his anger towards PDP

SRINAGAR: CM of Jammu and Kashmir said “gifting away” of state’s territory will be not be acceptable. Omar said, “It is up to the PDP how they would want to clear this (map). I do not think it is acceptable to anyone that part of state’s territory is gifted away like this.”

He reacted on the state of the map displayed by PDP during a power point presentation showed Aksai Chin painted in red and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in green.

The Chief Minister, however, said that he was in favour of making the borders irrelevant that would ensure free trade and travel between the sides of divided state.

Mehbooba Mufti PDP leader said her party has not done anything to challenge the sovereignty of the country over the territory of Jammu and Kashmir. “We have only shown the distance say from Kashmir-Leh to Yarkand, which is in China. These routes were open before 1947. We have not done anything (to change the map),” she added.

“We want erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, as it existed before the partition of subcontinent, should be made a free economic zone.” The map in question does not mean anything politically, Chief spokesman of the party Nayeem Akhtar said.

Also the PDP president clarifies that the power-point presentation only highlighted the distance between Srinagar and other major trade centres in Central Asia and China before 1947.

(News Editor- Naushin Fatima Khan)