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| Nonparticipation in roundtable conference reason for delay in release of passport to APHC Chairman | | | Srinagar, September 7 :-Kashmir Mirwaiz and chairman All Party Hurriyat Conference, Molvi Umar Farooq,had readied himself for a long trip to Sweden, Brussels, Ireland for participating in series of conferences during September.His dream is yet to fructify because the Government of India is yet to clear renewal his passport.
The Mirwaiz had earlier announced that he would visit Ireland to study the model they have adopted in forging peace with England. It was in this context that he had applied for the renewal of his passport. Last year he had been issued a passport the validity which had been fixed for a year. Several months ago the validity period had expired.
APHC sources said that the party chairman was keen to attend the OIC conference dure to be held in the third week of September.The Maulana is not sure whether he would receive the passport on time or not.
A senior APHC leader said that it was not necessary for the Mirwaiz or anybody else to visit Ireland for studying the model it had adopted.He said the model “can be exmamined while sitting in Srinagar” but as the Kashmir Mirwaiz and head of the APHC it was necessary for Molvi Umar Farooq to take part in various conferences where the Kashmir issue could be raised by the participating members.
When asked to explain the reason behind the inordinate delay in the release of the passport a close aide of the Maulana said “I believe the APHC chairman was being pressurized to accept Delhi’s offer to himn to take part in the third roundtable conference.” He said that Chief Minister,Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad and other mainstream political leaders had appealed to the Maulana and other separatist leaders to participate in the roundtable conference.
Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat,a senior APHC leader,told Kashmir Independent Press on Thursday “participation in the roundtable conference is completely unrelated to the passport issue.”He made it clear that “umpteen times we have stated that sitting with those whose ideas were known on the state’s accession with India was nothing short of wasting our time.”
Prof. Bhat said that “we are for a durable settlement of the Kashmir issue and we have no business to discuss governance,economic progress and allied matters.”He said that “coercing Molvi Umar Farooq or other separatists to attend the roundtable conference is a highly undemocratic exercise.”He hoped that Molvi Farooq’s passport was renewed and passports of those separatists,which had been impounded several years ago,be released because “we are not the enemy of people but their friends and well wishers.That is why we have been favouring sustained and meaningful diualogue between India and Pakistan and between Delhi and the APHC.”
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