Srinagar, May 1 -- Terming Pakistan as a "failed state", National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah Thursday said relations between New Delhi and Islamabad would never improve until a peoples' government is elected in the neighbouring country.
Speaking to reporters after a party event at the NC headquarters here, he also said the people of Pakistan want friendship with India as he warned that war between the two countries would have dangerous consequences.
"There is tension, but I cannot say whether it is a final option or not. The rulers of the two countries have to decide that," Abdullah said when asked whether a war between India and Pakistan was the final option.
However, the former chief minister of the erstwhile state of Ja...