Mirwaiz Farooq slams BJP' 'hyper nationalistic discourse'

August 16, 2016 19:08

Moderate separatist leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq today deprecated the "hyper nationalistic discourse" initiated by the BJP and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reference to Balochistan in his Indepndence

Day address was aimed at "diverting attention" from Kashmir.

In a statement here, the Mirwaiz, religious head of Muslims in the Valley and chairman of the moderate Hurriyat faction, said sooner or later the government will have to come down from its "high horse and listen to people of Kashmir and resolve the issue".

Without directly mentioning about the Independence Day speech of Modi, the Mirwaiz said "Talking about Balochistan or Sindh or Timbuktu" was only to "divert attention and appease some constituencies".

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