Srinagar: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said the people of Jammu and Kashmir are apprehensive about travelling outside the Union territory as they are all seen as suspects for the violent acts of a few.

“In the prevailing circumstances, perhaps parents will not like to send their children outside. When we are looked at with suspicious eyes from every side, when attempts are made to defame us for someone else’s doing, when attempts are made to bring everyone into the ambit of what few people have done, then it is obvious that it becomes difficult for us to leave for outside,” Abdullah said at an event in south Kashmir’s Kulgam.

The chief minister said it does not feel good to say this, “but what can we do, that is the reality”.

“Few people are responsible for what happened i

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