[DAWN] Former Jammu and Kashmire chief minister Farooq Abdullah on Friday, while cautioning the Indian government, said that Kashmire is not India's "personal property to be inherited", News18.com reported.Farooq Abdullah was commenting on the Indian parliament's standing resolution on Kashmire. "Is this your forefathers property?"
He was addressing a gathering in Chenab Valley, in the presence of his son and Omar Abdullah, who has also served as Kashmire's chief minister.
Farooq Abdullah also said that Pakistain is one of the stakeholders of the Kashmire issue which even the government of India has accepted, adding that the India will have no option but to start talks with Pakistain so that the "atrocities through which people of Jammu and Kashmire are undergoing will come to an end."
Kashmire has been divided between rivals India and Pakistain since 1947, but both claim the territory in its entirety.