Local elections can’t resolve Kashmir’s larger issue: Mirwaiz

SRINAGAR: Senior All Parties Hurriyat Conference leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that a local government installed through manipulated elections will not resolve the decades-old Kashmir issue that is at the heart of a dispute between Pakistan and India. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who spent most of the last five years under house detention in Srinagar, occupied Jammu and Kashmir, in a phone interview with a US news agency said the elections are being held as political voices contesting India’s occupation over the territory remain silenced after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government stripped occupied Jammu and Kashmir of its special status in 2019.