Srinagar: We need to have a healing touch policy. It does not mean (going) soft. If tomorrow, the court lets Masarat Alam go, in a democracy, what can you do?, CM Mehbooba Mufti said.
She was speaking during an interactive session with the audience at the ‘India Ideas Conclave 2017’, an initiative of the India Foundation, last evening.
“If he (Alam) goes to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court says there is nothing against him now and that you can’t hold him back anymore, what will you do?,” she asked.
“Would you say no?…No, you can’t! You have these institutions. We cannot undermine these institutions for the sake of one person because one person cannot create a havoc,” Mufti said.
She added that flushing out militants from Jammu and Kashmir would not solve the problem completely.
“If we kill 200 militants, 200 more will come from Pakistan, what to do?,” the PDP leader said.
