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Sonia for good Indo-Pak relation
UPA chairperson and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday underlined the need for maintaining good relations with Pakistan. This, she said, could be achieved by promoting people to people contact.
“People to people contact is necessary for improvement of ties between the two countries. Confidence building measures, like the opening of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, were initiated for improving relations with Pakistan,” she said, while addressing a woman’s meet at Sheri-Kashmir International Conversion Complex on the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar.
Praising the Woman for putting up a brave front against terrorism, Sonia told a gathering of around 3,000 women that people’s determinaton would put an end to the terror menace. “Iam happy to be here among you who have fought terrorism with courage,” she said. She said empowerment could be achieved by imparting good education to woman. “Right opportunites are also important in realising this goal,” she said. She asked Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to help strengthen selfhelp group. Azad said the state government was planning to raise a police battalion excluively for woman. Meanwhile, hours before Sonia’s arrival, terrorists threw a hand grenade at a CRPF vehicle in the Old City injuring two women and one man, all CRPF personnel. A CRPF spokesman told TOI that the vehicle was carrying women CRPF personnel to the central jail when terrorists attacked.
Sonia, who was likely to hold meetings with the state Congress and PDP leadership, cut short her stay in Srinagar and flew back to New Delhi.