Sidhu asks Can entire nation be blamed for handful of people?

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sat, Feb 16, 2019, 11:36 AM

Sidhu asks Can entire nation be blamed for handful of people?

New Delhi, Feb 16: Strongly condemning the 'cowardly' attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama by a Pakistan-based terror group in which 41 Central Reserve Police Force soldiers were killed, Punjab cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday asked whether an entire nation can be blamed for a handful of people.

Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has claimed responsibility for the attack that took place about 20 km from Srinagar.

Talking to reporters in Chandigarh, the cricketer-turned-politician said, "It (the attack) is a cowardly act and I condemn it firmly. Violence is always condemnable and those who did it must be punished."

"For me, violence is always condemnable. I believe in non-violence throughout. Violence is no solution for anything.

"For me, non-violence is the most potent weapon to move forward," he added.

"What I feel is that we should deliberate over the problem of terrorism, and find out the root cause of the problem and uproot it," he said.

More than 2,500 Central Reserve Police Force personnel, many of them returning from leave to rejoin duty in the Valley, were traveling in a convoy of 78 vehicles when they were ambushed on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway at Latoomode in Awantipora in south Kashmir around 3.15 pm on Thursday.