Srinagar, March 6, (Scoop News)-Addressing weekly congregations at the Historic Jamia Masjid, Kashmir’s chief cleric and All Parties Hurriyat Conference leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Friday reiterated the importance of restoration of natural states instead of just focusing on one man-made land route which has failed the people time and again.
Proclaiming, that roads are the lifelines of any city, state or country facilitating not only transportation but also trade. Today the whole world is being better connected through roads, railways etc. As opposed to this Kashmir is one of the few places where instead of progress there is regress in terms of development of these lifelines.
Jammu–Kashmir Highway, the only road route connecting Kashmir valley to the rest of world, remains closed for most part of winter months due to rains and snowfall causing hardships for the people. Despite many promises of development of this Highway not much has improved which results in regular threat to the Valley of being left without essential supplies.
He said, even at this time of thousands of passengers and supply trucks to Kashmir are stranded on Jammu – Srinagar Highway as a result of its closure due to slight bad weather in the region, causing lot of hardships to the travelling passengers and supply starved people of Kashmir.
Mirwaiz said that “the sad part is that Kashmir has many natural routes which facilitated its trade and commerce in the past at international level. Kashmir was a hub of crossroads connecting South and Central Asia and a key part of the Silk Route between China and West Asia as well as Europe.
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