Srinagar, Oct. 31 -- While welcoming the decline in violence in Kashmir post 2019, Kashmir's chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said on Friday that lasting peace requires justice, reconciliation and restoration of public trust.

Addressing the Friday congregation at the Jama Masjid here, Mirwaiz referred to the recently released International Crisis Group report on Jammu and Kashmir.

"The report says that militancy, street protests and violence have declined in recent years, which everyone welcomes, as no one understands the value of peace more than the people of Kashmir, who have suffered enormously over the past several decades," he said.

However, he said the report also "makes a fundamental point that reduction in violence does not nec...