Referring to Army Chief General Bipin Rawat's remarks

Omar said that he had said that such people be treated as anti-nationals.

"He had perhaps hoped that people after listening to this will prefer to sit in their houses. But even after his threat, perhaps people in large numbers (than earlier) came out of their houses. This issue won t get resolved by issuing threats," Omar said.

The NC working president said the PDP-BJP government should try to understand the sentiments of the people.

He also hit out at the Central as well as the state government over the closure of the Srinagar-Jammu national highway for the past week.

This is very disappointing, we know no one has control over weather, but after (bad) weather the highway can indeed be cleared, he said.

"On one side you are telling us about the four-laning of the highway, you are telling us that Prime Minister is coming to inaugurate the (Chennani-Nashri) tunnel, but from past five to six days the people are not able to travel on the highway and passengers are stranded," he added.

He said that the shops in Srinagar are running out of food items and goods.

Both Centre and State should look into this with seriousness that why they have failed to re-open the highway for consecutive six days, Omar said.

Somewhere there is negligence on their part and people are suffering, he claimed.

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