Improved India-Pakistan relations will help J&K: Omar

Jammu Jan 26: Underlining that incidents like Mumbai terror carnage had a direct impact on Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday hoped that the India-Pakistan relations improved and the entire region witnessed peace and development. "When such incidents take places, they impact Jammu and Kashmir directly," he said referring to the Mumbai attacks and the strained relation between India and Pakistan. However, Abdullah, in his republic day message to the people, maintained that "the region will witness peace and development with the improvement in relation between the two countries". The Chief Minister said it was his dream to make the state a developed and prosperous state and sought everyone's cooperation to realise this vision. Promising a responsive, people-friendly and accountable administration, Abdullah said youth were the greatest treasure of any nation and it was imperative that this human resource was properly channelised. Noting he was fully aware of the problems of the youth as he himself was young, he said the main problem that the state was confronting was unemployment. "The Government is taking quick steps to fill up all the vacancies in the government sector, yet this is not the ultimate solution to tackle unemployment, because there are limited opportunities in the Government sector. "We have to think ahead of it and involve private sector in the creation of job opportunities." (PTI)

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