Long-term policy requires to resolve Kashmir issue, says Manohar Parrikar

Long-term policy requires to resolve Kashmir issue, says Manohar Parrikar

The Kashmir conundrum is not an easy issue to resolve and only a long term policy can tackle it, Goa Chief Minister and former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Friday. Parrikar also said that there was a lot of pressure on him when he was serving as the Defence Minister in the national capital.

 "It is not easy to resolve the Kashmir issue. There is a need for a long-term policy to resolve the Kashmir issue," Parrikar said at the 126th birth anniversary celebration of Babasaheb Ambedkar here. He also said that New Delhi wasn't a place he got habituated to.

The former Defence Minister also said that New Delhi wasn't a place he was accustomed to."Delhi is not my place. It is not the place I am accustomed to. There was a lot of pressure on me," Parrikar said.