Article 370 Internal Issue, Stand By India In Fight Against Terror

The delegation is the first high-level foreign visit to Kashmir after the August 5 decision of the Centre to revoke the state’s special status and bifurcate it into two union territories, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
EU parliamentarians visiting Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday termed Article 370 an internal issue of India and said they stand by the country in its fight against terrorism. Addressing a press conference on the last day of their two-day visit to the Valley, the group of 23 members of the European Parliament also condemned the killing of six laborers from West Bengal by terrorists on Tuesday. “If we talk about Article 370 it is India’s internal matter. What concerns us is terrorism which is a global menace and we should stand with India in fighting it. There was an unfortunate incident of the killing of five innocent laborers by terrorists. We condemn it,” said Henri Malosse from France. The migrant laborers shot dead by terrorists in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. Five died on Tuesday and a sixth, who was seriously injured, on Wednesday. Malosse said the team got a briefing from the army and police as well as young activists and exchanged “ideas of peace”. MEP from Poland Ryszard Czarnecki said the international media coverage seems biased. “Once we go back to our countries we will inform them of what we saw,” he said. Newton Dunn from the UK described the visit, aimed at getting a first-hand assessment of the situation after the revocation of the state’s special status under Article 370, as an “eye-opener”.