‘Dialogue is the only way,’ says Farooq Abdullah on India-Pakistan bilateral issues

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Also Read: India deploys upgraded MiG-29 fighter jets squadron at Srinagar to tackle threats from Pakistan, China "Both the countries should come clean on Kashmir. We have been fed up with duplicity and double standards. Unless both countries don't sit across the table with sincerity and integrity, it is a Tamasha (show-off)," he said.

He was responding to the "changing political environment" in the Kashmir valley where a Tiranga rally was organised ahead of the Independence Day celebrations on August 15. He said that terrorism is still "kicking and thriving" in Kashmir. "Encounters are raging.

Jawans are being killed. People were being killed". "If peace is returning back to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, why is there a spike in terrorism-related incidents", said, Farooq.

There has been a "spike" in terrorism-related incidents in Rajouri and Poonch divisions in the Jammu division in the last few weeks. This comes before the Independence Day. One terrorist was shot dead and another was injured as an infiltration bid was foiled in the Poonch sector on Monday morning.

Security forces recovered arms and ammunition from the terrorist killed along the Line of Control. While one terrorist was killed in Rajouri earlier this month. Meanwhile, after the constitutional changes and reorganization of the erstwhile State of Jammu-Kashmir, the Union territories of Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh have been fully integrated into the mainstream of the nation.