Striking a tone different from parties like Congress, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday backed the Government for hosting the JIT saying it was time for the two countries to give up animosity and push friendship.
“It is a very good step that India allowed the Pakistani JIT to visit Pathankot. If we want to improve relations with the neighbouring country, then what is the harm in joining hands to see who is responsible for such attacks.
They have come as they want to know who are responsible. So, let them see and then they will give their report on their return,” Abdullah said.
He said India and Pakistan would have to sit together to find solutions to the issues confronting the two countries.
“There is no other option. We have had enough animosity and now time has come to take the friendship forward,” he said even as he cautioned that “there are some powers in both the countries who do not want peace as they earn their bread and butter on our blood.”