Srinagar, Dec. 27 -- Peoples Conference Chairman and MLA Handwara Sajad Lone on Saturday delivered a highly concerning address, warning that the growing incidents of harassment of Kashmiris in different parts of the country are eroding the very foundations of national integration and must be treated as a matter of national security rather than isolated law-and-order episodes.

Addressing a press conference, Lone said he was compelled to speak after being approached by numerous families from his constituency who narrated disturbing experiences faced by their relatives outside Jammu and Kashmir. "If in our own country we are subjected to this kind of behaviour, then one has to ask a painful question-what is our status in this country?" he s...