{"id":316179,"date":"2019-10-30T07:52:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T07:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316179"},"modified":"2019-10-30T08:07:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T08:07:19","slug":"support-indias-efforts-to-end-terror-in-kashmir-says-eu-delegation-on-jammu-and-kashmir-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/support-indias-efforts-to-end-terror-in-kashmir-says-eu-delegation-on-jammu-and-kashmir-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Support India\u2019s efforts to end terror in Kashmir, says EU delegation on Jammu and Kashmir visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316184 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EU.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/EU.jpg 544w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/EU-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/EU-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/>A delegation of European Union MPs who visited Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday supported the country\u2019s effort to restore normalcy in the valley while asserting that terrorism is a major global problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The EU delegation said that they were not here to interfere in Indian politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe were in the valley to find facts. We have no interest in Indian politics. We just wanted to meet the common people,\u201d they said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The delegation also regretted the killings of labourers in Kashmir\u2019s Kulgam on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The EU lawmaker said, \u201cTerrorism in Kashmir is a problem not just in India but across the globe. We do not want Kashmir to become another Afghanistan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is the first time an international team has been allowed in Jammu and Kashmir since the government ended its special status on August 5 and split it into two union territories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The opposition has questioned how foreign MPs are welcomed in the state when politicians in India have been denied entry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a tweet sadi, \u201cMPs from Europe are welcome to go on a guided tour of Jammu &amp; #Kashmir while Indian MPs are banned &amp; denied entry. There is something very wrong with that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation of European Union MPs who visited Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday supported the country\u2019s effort to restore normalcy in the valley while asserting that terrorism is a major global problem. The EU delegation said that they were not here to interfere in Indian politics. \u201cWe were in the valley to find facts. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,36,2009,2014],"tags":[11937,1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316179"}],"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=316179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316185,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316179\/revisions\/316185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}