Aug 19 , 2015
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Hurriyat leaders accept invitation, to meet Sartaj Aziz in New Delhi
Kashmiri leadership welcomes adviser-level talks between Pakistan, IndiaSRINAGAR – All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) held a meeting of the executive council at the Mirwaiz Manzil in which Mirwaiz Dr Umar Farooq, Professor Abdul Ghani Bhat, Bilal Ghani Lone, Musadiq Adil, Moulana Masroor Abbas Ansari and Mukhtar Ahmad Waza participated.
The meeting discussed the ongoing political situation, the proposed meeting of National Security and Foreign Affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz and India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and the recent escalation of hostilities at the Line of Control and its fallout on Kashmiris living on both side of the divide.
Accepting the invitation from Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit, the participants stated the a high-level Hurriyat delegation headed by APHC Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq would attend the reception hosted for Sartaj Aziz. Welcoming the proposed adviser-level meeting in New Delhi, the participants stated that a meaningful dialogue was inevitable for the prosperity of the South Asian region.
The meeting also expressed deep concern over the reports that the government in New Delhi was working on a proposal to setup colonies in the valley to settle retired army and paramilitary personnel. The members said that this move was in keeping with the BJP-RSS relentless agenda of changing the demographic structure of the state and its disputed nature.
The participants firmly stated that Hurriyat would not allow any such move which aims to change the demographic and disputed nature of Jammu Kashmir. In this regard, the Hurriyat Conference has constituted a committee which who would collect the details, deliberate over them and formulate a response to counter this move.
They stated that the Hurriyat Conference as representative of the state people who were the main and most affected party in the dispute support a meaningful dialogue between the two countries and including them, which aims at finding a lasting solution to the problem in keeping with the aspirations of Kashmiris and other stakeholders. The participants stated that the relation between Pakistan and India have remained tense for decades due to lingering Kashmir issue.
Such hostilities were not in the interest of the people of both the nations including South Asia. They stated the tensions between the two nations and on borders would de-escalate only through meaningful dialogue aimed to solving the Kashmir issue in accordance with the aspirations of its people.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk