Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday said that India lacked capability to hold election in Occupied Kashmir despite heavy military presence.
"700,000 troops have been deployed in Kashmir and there's one Indian soldier to every 10 Kashmiris. Despite this, you [India] do not have courage to hold elections in Occupied Kashmir," he tweeted.
"If this is your situation even after spending billions on security then don't be stubborn. Go towards self-determination and let people decide what they want," he added.
India would hold a general election in seven stages starting on April 11, the Election Commission said on Sunday, in what would be the world's biggest democratic exercise with Prime Minister Narendra Modi likely to benefit from tensions with Pakistan.
About 900 million citizens would be eligible to vote, 15 million of them aged between 18 and 19, in a mammoth exercise lasting more than a month, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said at a press briefing in the capital New Delhi on Sunday.
The minister on another occasion said the government had devised a three-pronged strategy to control the banned organisations economically, politically and administratively. He said first of all those organisations would have to be de-weaponised. The Information Minister said many people, who remained attached with banned outfits, now wanted to delink themselves from their activities. He said the government would also take the opposition on-board on the issue of banned organisations.
Fawad Chaudhry said there was dire need to reform the country's overall education system instead of only seminaries. He said a National Syllabus Committee had been set up under supervision of Federal Education Minister to review the educational syllabus and suggest necessary reforms in it.
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