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| Islamabad not keen on establishing Indo-Pak joint working group | | |
Srinagar,October 12 : Islamabad is not keen on establishing India -Pakistan joint working groups for discussing Kashmir and allied issues.
Reports from across the LoC reaching here said that Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf has not yet decided whether the matter pertaining to setting up joint working groups needed to be discussed with Delhi.
These reports said that Pakistan is keen on resumption of the bilateral dialogue which was suspended following serial Mumbai blasts. It is in this context that Islamabad has lent its support to those who were,at present, engaged in track II diplomacy.
In fact the idea of establishing joint working groups had been mooted by the APHC chairman, Molvi Umar Farooq.His idea was to relegate the importance of the working groups constituted on the suggestion of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
These working groups comprise political leaders,intellectuals and experts from Jammu,Kashmir and Ladakh and each group is headed by a former diplomat,bureucrat and academician.Since the APHC didnot respond to the initiative from Government to join the roundtable conference and the working group Molvi Umar Farooq had floated the idea of joint working group for belittling the importance of the working groups set up by the Government.Pakistan has not shown any interest in the Kashmir Mirwaiz's idea beacuse Islamabad would like to get the India-Pakistan talks resumed so that the Kashmir issue figures in future discussions.
Reports said that Pakistan President is opposed to wasting time on constituting working groups and committees. He is eager to see that talks at the level of foreign secretaries and between ministries of the two countries so that not only Kashmir issue but other allied matters were debated in detail.
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