J&K CM Omar Abdullah met PM Modi in New Delhi. They discussed several matters, including the recent terror attack in Pahalgam, the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference stated.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Saturday and discussed several pressing matters, including the terror attack in Pahalgam that left 26 people, mostly tourists, dead. This marks the first interaction between the two leaders since the April 22 massacre.
According to officials cited by news agency PTI, the meeting took place at the Prime Minister’s residence and lasted around 30 minutes.
The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) posted on social media platform X, “Chief Minister J&K Omar Abdullah called on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and discussed various issues, including last week’s Pahalgam Terror Attack.”
Honourable Chief Minister J&K @OmarAbdullah called on the Honourable Prime Minister @narendramodi in New Delhi and discussed various issues, including last week’s Pahalgam Terror Attack. pic.twitter.com/p3wncevKFM
— JKNC (@JKNC_) May 3, 2025
Farooq Abdullah Visits Residence Of Pony Ride Operator Who Died In Pahalgam Attack, Meets Tourists
Meanwhile, National Conference President and former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Saturday visited the residence of Adil Hussain Shah, a pony ride operator who was among the victims of the terror attack, at Hapatnaar in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
Paying tribute to Shah, Abdullah said, “He is a martyr. He sacrificed his life, he was not afraid of the guns of the beasts. This is humanity, this is Kashmiriyat. One who is afraid is dead.” He urged the people of Jammu and Kashmir to face such attacks with courage, asserting, “We have to fight them (terrorists) and fight them with courage. We will never be happy and prosperous and we can never move forward until we fight them. So, we must have courage.”
Abdullah also condemned those behind the attack, saying, “Those who did that and those behind it murdered humanity. The doors of hell are open for them. They cannot enter heaven.”
However, when asked about India’s actions against Pakistan following the attack, Abdullah said, “Our Prime Minister will take such a decision.”
Commenting on Pakistan Peoples Party leader Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s inflammatory remarks after India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), Abdullah said, “He (Bhutto) will continue to issue statements … If we care about his statements, we cannot move forward.” Bhutto-Zardari had reportedly told The News, “The Indus is ours and will remain ours – either our water will flow through it or their blood.”
Abdullah reiterated his longstanding demand to revisit the IWT, brokered by the World Bank in 1960 to regulate river sharing between India and Pakistan. “We have been saying for a long time that we need to revisit the IWT. We are suffering losses because of it. The rivers are ours but we are suffering. I am not saying that water be stopped but we also have a right over it,” he said.
He cited the example of water shortages in Jammu and added, “We had tried to divert water from the Chenab to them but the World Bank did not help us, saying it came under the IWT. Today, we have an opportunity to get water to Jammu from there (Chenab). We have a right over the rivers as well, not just them (Pakistan).”
Highlighting the limitations posed by the treaty, Abdullah said, “India could not build any projects on its rivers without Pakistan’s permission. Are you not deprived of electricity? We have rivers from where we can generate thousands of megawatts of electricity and can never be deprived of electricity. But we cannot build any projects as they (Pakistan) do not permit us. So, we have to revisit it and, God willing, we will.”
When asked about the war-like situation between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in the aftermath of the attack, Abdullah said, “I have no answer to such questions.”
Later in the day, Abdullah travelled to Pahalgam, where he interacted with tourists and posed for selfies.
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