India,Pak must accept distinctiveness of J-K: Mehbooba

She said the Centre will have to find enough space and confidence in its nationalism to accommodate and live with Kashmiri nationalism with all its contours.

“Same will apply to Pakistan and the Pak-administered Kashmir. Similarly,within the state,Kashmir,Jammu and Ladakh have to devise an institutional framework for a modus vivendi to live and flourish as a modern welfare state,” she said.

She said all the historic routes connecting Jammu and Kashmir to other neighbouring countries including China need to be opened,which would not affect the present realities of nationality and sovereignty.

“To reopen those (trade) routes will only be in accordance with globalisation of trade and would necessarily also demand a virtual reunification of our state with the part that is administered by Pakistan,” Mehbooba said.

“Why should the large network of roads and highways in our north be exclusively dedicated to military or strategic use and not utilised for more productive purposes,” she said.