Even as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today sacked Haseeb Drabu as a Cabinet minister, the Jammu and Kashmir Coordination Committee (JKCC) said the PDP leader should still come clean on his remark that “Kashmir should not be seen as a political problem.”
“Drabu should clarify his stand when he says that Kashmir should not be seen as a conflict zone…he looks to be eying for some higher position by behaving as a new ambassador of New Delhi. This appears to be a failed attempt to hoodwink the international community by issuing novel but far from truth discourse,” said a statement of the JKCC, which is an amalgam of various traders’ bodies and civil society.
At an Ambassadors’ Meet in New Delhi on Friday, Drabu was quoted as having said, “Kashmir should not be seen as a conflict state or a political problem but as a society with social issues.”
Asserting that Drabu had “actually made himself a laughing stock before a group of ambassadors who knew about the 70-year-old internationally acknowledged political dispute of Kashmir,” the JKCC statement said.
“By bringing in a new, bizarre and ridiculous narrative to the Kashmir dispute, Drabu wishes to walk an extra mile to please his bosses by selling off whatever is left of his soul and conscience,” it said.
What minister said
At an Ambassadors’ Meet in New Delhi on Friday, Drabu was quoted as having said, “Kashmir should not be seen as a conflict state or a political problem but as a society with social issues.”
