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Mehbooba said local militants should be prevented from walking on the path of violence. SRINAGAR:Terming local militants as “sons of soil”, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said efforts should be made to save them, adding that the Centre should initiate dialogue with the militant leadership in Jammu and Kashmir to end the “gun culture”.“Right now, talks should be held with Pakistan and separatists. The former chief minister, however, said it was “too early (for talks with militants)”. We are months away from the 2019 general election and like always, using Kashmiris to score extra political points with the Indian electorate has become somewhat of a pre-requisite,” she had said in a series of tweets. The PDP president had on Monday questioned the timing of filing of charge sheet in the 2016 JNU sedition case, in which seven Kashmiris have been named, saying the students were being used to score political points ahead of Lok Sabha elections..