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Terming Pakistan as a ‘failed state’, National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah has said relations between New Delhi and Islamabad would never improve until a peoples’ government is elected in the neighbouring country.
As reported by PTI, Speaking to reporters after a party event at the NC headquarters in Srinagar, he also said the people of Pakistan want friendship with India as he warned that war between the two countries would have dangerous consequences.
“There is tension, but I cannot say whether it is a final option or not. The rulers of the two countries have to decide that,” Abdullah said when asked whether a war between India and Pakistan was the final option.
However, the former chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir said the relations between the two countries would improve only when the army ‘goes’ and there is peoples’ government in Pakistan.
“I do not think the relations between India and Pakistan will ever improve unless the army goes. People of Pakistan want friendship with India, people but not the hierarchy there. When the peoples’ government will come, I am sure there will be peace between India and Pakistan,” he added.
Terming Pakistan a ‘failed state’, the NC president said rather than working for the betterment of the country, its people and to improve the situation, the rulers of the country have chosen confrontation with India to escape their responsibilities.
“The consequences will be dangerous if there is a war as both have nuclear power. If they use that, then only God know what will happen,” he warned.
Asserting that Kashmir was passing through ‘a difficult time’, Abdullah said it cannot be predicted what the future holds.
“Both the countries are preparing to face each other in a battlefield. Efforts are being made across the globe that this (war) should not happen and some way is found to nab those behind the attack as well as their masterminds. How much will the world succeed in stopping this, only God knows,” he said.
