Srinagar, Feb. 7 -- People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday wrote to the union railway minister hailing him for keeping in abeyance the railway projects passing through Kashmir's apple orchards. However, she urged the ministry for realignment of the projects along the barren land to develop a dedicated fruit corridor for the horticulture-dependent Kashmir valley.

She has also sought rail connectivity for the Chenab Valley and Pir Panjal region as, she said, the absence of rail links has 'constrained the development' of the two mountainous regions.

The former chief minister of J&K welcomed the Union Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw's decision to keep the three proposed railway projects in the Kashmir Valley in abeya...