<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: small;">Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh has said that senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari was killed because he tried to find a middle path in Jammu and Kashmir. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: small;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: small;">Dr Singh said whoever follows the middle path in Kashmir is targeted. He said what happened to Bukhari is not an isolated case, Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq and Abdul Ghani Lone were targeted by Pakistan over the years for speaking with equanimity. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: small;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: small;">In an exclusive interview <span id="m_-7991378475944088735gmail-81" class="m_-7991378475944088735gmail-gr_ m_-7991378475944088735gmail-gr_81 m_-7991378475944088735gmail-gr- m_-7991378475944088735gmail-gr_gramm m_-7991378475944088735gmail-gr_inline_cards m_-7991378475944088735gmail-gr_run_anim m_-7991378475944088735gmail-Grammar m_-7991378475944088735gmail-multiReplace" style="display: inline; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: inherit; font-size: inherit;">to</span> DD News, Dr Singh said Centre has decided to restart operations against terrorists in the state keeping in mind all security aspects. He <span id="m_-7991378475944088735gmail-82" class="m_-7991378475944088735gmail-gr_ m_-7991378475944088735gmail-gr_82 m_-7991378475944088735gmail-gr- m_-7991378475944088735gmail-gr_gramm m_-7991378475944088735gmail-gr_inline_cards m_-7991378475944088735gmail-gr_run_anim m_-7991378475944088735gmail-Punctuation m_-7991378475944088735gmail-only-del m_-7991378475944088735gmail-replaceWithoutSep" style="display: inline; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: inherit; font-size: inherit;">said,</span> government's priority is to ensure peaceful conduct of Amarnath Yatra.</div>