New Delhi, July 2: Chief minister Omar Abdullah said Friday that the initiative for a political dialogue on Kashmir has been ineffective and that there was a need to revive the political peace process in Valley.
“The failure of a political dialogue within Jammu & Kashmir is the single-largest factor today. People don’t see a light at the end of the dark tunnel. Obviously, my government is doing everything to address day-to-day concerns - roads, bridges, schools. But we must understand- the issue of J&K did not arise, unlike the Naxal movement, because of economic problems, but because of the politics of J&K. Till we address it politically, we will always have this problem here, regardless of who occupies Chief Minister’s chair, Omar told NDTV.
"The Home Minister tried through a quiet dialogue and that was the right way to go about it. Part of the problem is that the dialogue has been so public it has never been able to live up to the hopes and expectations that were aroused at the beginning of the process so doing it quietly this time was right".
 "I think where we failed was there was no dialogue between India and Pakistan at that time. It would naïve to assume Pakistan would allow a sustained internal dialogue between government of India and separatists, in the absence of a dialogue between New Delhi and Pakistan now that our governments are talking to each other perhaps now, we can begin to put the foundation right for a dialogue between New Delhi and the state," Omar said.

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