{"id":312727,"date":"2019-05-30T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312727"},"modified":"2019-05-30T13:11:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T13:11:06","slug":"act-like-a-statesman-to-resolve-kashmir-engineer-rashid-to-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/act-like-a-statesman-to-resolve-kashmir-engineer-rashid-to-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Act like a statesman to resolve Kashmir: Engineer Rashid to PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312728 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Er-Rasheed-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Er-Rasheed-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Er-Rasheed.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Controversial J&amp;K politician and former legislator Engineer Rasheed on Thursday has urged the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revise his security-centric policy on Kashmir and act like a statesman to resolve the long running problem in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Tackle the political issue in Kashmir politically. Don\u2019t rule Kashmir through the barrel of the gun. All Kashmiris are well wishers of India and not its enemy,\u201d Engineer Rasheed said while addressing a press conference in Srinagar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said massive\u00a0 mandate received by the prime minister had provided him an opportunity to behave like a statesman and start talking about Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cNo one can suppress the voices of the common people in Kashmir by exclusive military measures&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rashid, who lost the Parliament election from Baramulla, also urged the PM Modi\u00a0 to respond to Pakistan premier Imran Khan&#8217;s overtures for dialogue. He, however, called on both the countries &#8220;not to take Kashmiris for granted&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also urged the PM to\u00a0\u00a0release the political prisoners lodged in Tihar jail\u00a0 \u00a0as\u00a0 part of Confidence Building Measures (CBMs).\u201cKashmiri inmates lodged in Tihar jail should be released unconditionally,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial J&amp;K politician and former legislator Engineer Rasheed on Thursday has urged the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revise his security-centric policy on Kashmir and act like a statesman to resolve the long running problem in the state. &#8220;Tackle the political issue in Kashmir politically. Don\u2019t rule Kashmir through the barrel of the gun. All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,11418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312729,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312727\/revisions\/312729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}