Srinagar, Oct 27: National Conference, MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi on Monday fired back at Omar Abdullah, saying there is “no time to fight a personal war” and insisting the focus must remain on what he called an existential crisis in Kashmir.

In a sharply worded response, Mehdi said the region is facing far graver problems than intra-party rivalries. “Kashmir is fighting an existential crisis right now,” he said, adding that “thousands of our youth are locked up in jails.” Pointing to what he described as the unanswered plight of detainees, Mehdi asked: “Do they know the address of those thousands of youth who are still in jail? Without trials.”

Mehdi also took aim at what he called symbolic gestures by the NC leadership, accusing Omar Abdullah of offering Kashmiri shawls to BJP leader

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