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Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Indian Kashmiri separatists to hold talks in PakistanSRINAGAR: Separatist leaders from Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) said on Monday they would travel to Pakistan for their first talks with officials in nearly four years, a move that could revive cross-border tensions.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a leader of the moderate Hurriyat Conference, said that Pakistan had invited him and other separatists who oppose India’s rule of Kashmir to several days of meetings in Islamabad next month.
“We will be meeting members of the ruling party, opposition leaders and government officials,” Farooq told AFP, adding he wanted to convince all sides that “peace is impossible without resolution of Kashmir”.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence in 1947, two of them over the Himalayan region, which remains divided by the heavily militarised Line of Control (LoC).
Around 47,000 people have died, though militant violence has fallen in recent years. afp
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk