Srinagar: National Conference President Farooq Abdullah on Thursday said that the Srinagar-Jammu Highway was kept open even during the Kargil war.
“We have never seen such a situation. Even during Kargil war when intelligence reports suggested suicide attackers were roaming, such a decision was never taken,” Abdullah said.
Abdullah stated that those who had passed such orders were acting as a rubber stamp for Delhi and only worsening the life of the people in the state.
“The national highway is the lifeline of people. Patients pass (through the highway), marriages take place, tourists come… Those passing such orders must have surrendered their ability to think before acting,” he said.
Abdullah, while criticizing the Governor’s administration asked, “What is happening for God’s sake? Are you trying to make Kashmir a colony of the British?” and termed the Governor Satya Pal Malik led administration’s decision interference with a citizen’s fundamental rights.
