Srinagar, Feb 5: Ruling National Conference leader and legislator Dr Mustafa Kamaal Tuesday said that “Army and Intelligence Bureau (IB) are conniving to launch a Bangladesh-type operation to annex Pakistan Administered Kashmir.” He also slammed the Army for its “undue interference in state administration.”
 In an interview to a local news gathering agency CNS, the NC leader said: “Army and IB want to repeat the same plan in Pakistan Administered Kashmir by which India conspired to separate Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971.”
 Terming the IB and Army as “avowed” enemies of Kashmir, Kamaal said the two agencies are responsible for arrest of his father and NC founder Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah in 1953.
 “Army and IB are engaged in hatching conspiracies aimed at diluting the special status of the State. They are working on a plan to weaken the constitutional and legal position of the State to enslave people of Jammu and Kashmir,” he said.
 Kamaal said following the statement of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on the floor of the Assembly last year that Kashmir had only acceded and not merged with India, the Army and IB have been “consistently conspiring to weaken the party.”
 Kamaal claimed that his elder brother and union minister Dr. Farooq Abdullah often suggest him ‘not to go against IB, otherwise, they will not allow him to win in his Tangmarg constituency during elections.’
 The NC leader also said that Government of India and State leadership of Congress “conspired” to prevent him from becoming a minister. “From the Congress High Command to its State leadership, all opposed my induction into the cabinet,” he said, adding that State Congress Chief Prof Saifuddin Soz played a vital role in keeping him “away from the ministry.”
 Accusing Congress of being ‘unprincipled’, Kamaal said its sole aim is to “cling on to the chair and this party is responsible for destruction of Jammu and Kashmir.”
 Kamaal asserted that National Conference will form the next government on its own in 2014.

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