Featured Image: In 2016, PM Narendra Modi was conferred with Saudi Arabia's highest civilian honour, the King Abdulaziz Sash, named after the founder of the modern Saudi state, Abdulaziz Al Saud. Image credits: PTI
One of the leading newspapers in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Gazette, has appreciated the Narendra Modi government for taking various development initiatives in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
An article in the Saudi daily mentions that after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, those local leaders of the erstwhile state, who were critical of the Modi government, have been proved wrong. “The Indian Government has remained firm in its decisions to ensure that the region is pulled from the quagmire of uncertainty”, it noted.
The news article has also acknowledged the decline in violence and also the decrease in the number of stone-pelting incidents.
The Gazette went on to say that the Modi government has taken serious initiatives for opening employment opportunities for the Kashmiri youth who were “misguided to take up arms in a proxy war against a welfare state”.
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