Pak HC invites IHK freedom leaders

By: Our Staff Reporter | January 02, 2010 |
SRINAGAR (NNI) - Pakistans High Commission in New Delhi has invited Kashmiri pro-freedom leaders for a meeting with Chairman Senate Farooq H Naik and Speaker National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza on January 6 in New Delhi.
Confirming the invitation, All Parties Hurriyat Conference senior leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani said, Yes I have received the invitation. There is no agenda for meeting. It seems they want to know the latest Kashmir situation from us. Let us see what will emerge. May be quiet diplomacy and other issues will also come up, Geelani told Greater Kashmir.
Asked what they would discuss with the Pakistani leaders, Geelani said, We will see what they want to know from us and accordingly, we will discuss that. We havent deliberated upon it yet.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that they were looking forward to meet the Pakistani leaders. It is after a long time that a high level delegation from Pakistan is meeting us in New Delhi. Though situation in Pakistan is volatile, still Pakistan is concerned about Kashmir. We will attend the meeting.
We would brief them about the latest situation in Kashmir and also about Shopian double rape and murder case. We would make it clear that there cant be any solution through any internal arrangement with India. Kashmir is not state-centre problem, but a political problem between Indian, Pakistan and Kashmiris, he added.
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik also confirmed that he has been invited. I received the invitation today, he said.
Sources said that all the three leaders have been asked to get their colleagues along with them to New Delhi. The Pakistani leaders would update them on Indo-Pak dialogue. They would try to bring some consensus among the leaders on the dialogue issue, sources told Greater Kashmir.
In a statement, Syed Ali Shah Geelani said Pakistans stability was a must for resolving the decades-old Kashmir issue, and urged the people to take cue from the struggle of the Founding Father of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and remain steadfast in their struggle for their right to self-determination.
Addressing a function-organised by Muslim League on the 133rd birth anniversary of the Quaid over phone from New Delhi, Geelani said: Stable Pakistan is the strength and in the interest of Kashmiris. But America, Israel and India are trying to destabilise the country.
The President High Court Bar Association, Mian Abdul Qayooom paid tributes to the Quaid for making possible the creation of a separate country for Muslims

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