Jammu: National Conference vice president and former Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, here on Wednesday asked the BJP Government at the Centre to clarify its stand on Taliban.
“Whether Taliban is a terror organization or not? Please clarify to us as to how you see Taliban?’’ Omar asked the Centre while replying to a question by media persons whether India shall engage with Taliban. “They have started talking with Taliban’’ in Qatar, Omar added.
“If it is a terror organization then how you distinguish between Taliban and other terror outfits,’’ he asked, adding “and, if it is not a terror organization then please move in the United Nations to have it removed from the list of terror organizations, let their bank account start functioning and let them not treat differently,’’ he added.
He asked the Central government to “make up your mind what it is,’’ Omar said “you cannot have different yard sticks for different organisations’’. “I am not the decision maker nor my views matter to you,’’ he added.
He also asked the Central government to restore statehood to Jammu Kashmir before holding assembly polls, saying that “for rest of the things like Article 370, we will continue fighting in the Supreme Court’’.
Pointing out that unemployment was rising, corruption was yet to be tackled and people complaining of non-development, he NC leader questioned as to who got benefitted after August 5, 2019 when Government moved to abrogate Article 370.
Earlier, Omar Abdullah along with National Conference president and sitting MP Farooq Abdullah had nearly four hour long meeting with party workers from Jammu at the Sher-i-Kashmir Bhawan here to ascertain their views about the situation in J&K.