Centre should consider Ramzan ceasefire, says Mehbooba Mufti after all-party meeting

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said she will ask the Centre to consider Ramzan ceasefire in the Valley as was done by Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 2000. 

She said she will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. 

Speaking to reporters after an all-party meeting, Ms Mufti said, "Everyone agreed that we must appeal to Centre that it must think about a unilateral ceasefire like Vajpayee ji did in 2000. Encounters, crackdowns is causing trouble to common man. Efforts must be made to maintain environment so that both Eid and Amarnath Yatra are peaceful."

"Everyone also agreed that we meet PM Modi and express our concerns over situation in J&K and discuss how do we reach out to people of J&K," she said. 

She said that everyone present at the meeting was in agreement that if agenda of alliance between BJP and PDP is followed, then situation in J&K can be changed. 

The meeting convened by the PDP-BJP government was called over the security situation in the Valley.

The meeting came two days after a tourist was killed in a stone pelting incident in the Valley. 

R Thirumani, a resident of Chennai, and his family were returning from Gulmarg on Monday, when their vehicle was caught in stone pelting near Magam area of Budgam. A stone hit the young man on his right temple and he was rushed to the Soura Institute of Medical Sciences where he died.

Upset over the incident, Mufti had termed it as "murder of humanity", something she said was unheard of in Jammu and Kashmir. 

(With PTI inputs)