PDP, BJP partners in crime

April 13, 2018 11:17

"I do not want that the number of passenger planes landing at Srinagar airport is used as a counter-argument to the number of coffins that are interned elsewhere. I don't want that we have to hide our tears from our guests and hide our guests from the mourners on the streets. I am not for importing crowds of people to camouflage the immense outpouring of grief that has become a part of our daily life. Instead, I am for a tourism that is seen as a sincere developmental exercise by our people and not as a military operation. My tourism is for the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh first and then for everyone else."

J-K tourism minister and CM Mehbooba Mufti's brother Tassaduq Mufti's interview to the Indian Express. Read it here.

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