The Valley’s head cleric and moderate separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has always favoured negotiations over guns as a means of solving the Kashmir imbroglio. Under house arrest following the killing of Burhan Wani, Mirwaiz spoke to Toufiq Rashid about the fall-out. Do you think Burhan living would not have been as inspiring to the youth? We want to keep the resistance political. There is no scope for peaceful resistance… Even the coalition partners have buried their agenda.

Source: Hindustan Times July 10, 2016 03:33 UTC