Sharif should restart peace process: Omar

May 13, 2013 |

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday hoped PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif would restart the peace process with India and urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to extend a hand of friendship to him for resolving issues between the two sides, including Kashmir.
Congratulating Mr Sharif for his party’s victory in Pakistan general elections, Omar said, “Today is an important day for people of Jammu and Kashmir as the elections were held in Pakistan and Mian Nawaz Sharif is emerging as victorious.
“I, from this stage at Trikulbal Pattan, congratulate Mian Sahib on behalf of people of Jammu and Kashmir, my government and myself and hope that he would carry forward the process of restoring peace and friendship with India and work for resolving K-issue.”
The chief minister, who was addressing a function here, 30 km from Srinagar, urged Sharif to move ahead once again on this important issue by picking up the threads from where these had been dropped.
Earlier, on micro blogging site Twitter, Omar said, “Congratulations to Nawaz Sharif. I hope he is now able to live up to his commitment to restart his peace process interrupted in 1999. “I suppose we’ll have to wait for a post election scenario to emerge in our country.”

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Indian back after 9 years in Pak prison
Sasaram, May 12: After spending nine years in a prison in Pakistan, Indian prisoner Khushbu Paswan has reached his native village in Bihar’s Rohtas district, a senior police officer said on Sunday.
Paswan, 40, alias Tuntun arrived in Baghaila village on Saturday and was given a hero’s welcome by his family, the Rohtas superintendent of police Vikas Varman said.
In 2003 Paswan fled to Amritsar after being released from prison in his native district in an assault case. He then crossed over to the neighbouring country but landed in a Pakistani jail.
Paswan was released by the jail authorities in Lahore on June 15, 2012 and upon crossing over to Amritsar through the Wagah border, he was admitted to a Red Cross hospital for treatment to mental trauma that he had undergone during imprisonment in the Lahore jail, Mr Varman said.
Upon recuperation for nearly a year and regaining detailed information about his family background, he informed the details to the authorities in Punjab who arranged to send him to his village on Saturday, the SP said.
— PTI

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