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| With peace proposal Pak invites Kashmiri separatist leaders for talks | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Feb 23: In a significant development, Pakistan on Thursday extended invitation to Mirwaiz Umar Farooq led Hurriyat Conference to visit Islamabad for holding fresh round of talks on Kashmir, it is learnt. The development comes in the backdrop of Pakistan granting MFN status to India to strengthen its trade ties with New Delhi.
Interestingly, Pakistan has proposed peace plan to the hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani and wanted to shelve the Kashmir issue in the wake of internal disturbances within that country. Mirwaiz who along with senior separatist leaders Shabir Ahmad Shah and Syed Agha Hassan are camping in New Delhi for apprising foreign diplomats on Kashmir issue received a formal invitation from Pakistan High Commissioner to Shahid Malik today.
Malik according to sources returned from Islamabad on Wednesday evening. Sources said the High Commissioner Malik today held a four hour meeting with Mirwaiz, Shah and Hassan during which the formalities of the Hurriyat delegation's visit to Pakistan were discussed. "Mirwaiz has accepted the invitation minutes after receiving it," sources added. Hurriyat (M) leaders had previously visited Pakistan in 2008. However, this will be for the first time after 2010 uprising, that Hurriyat will be engaged in official talks. Though both the factions of the Hurriyat Conference have been holding informal meets with different civil societies and NGO's but they have refused to talk to centre and the New Delhi appointed interlocutors. Mirwiaz said that his faction got an invitation. "We received an invitation letter from Pak High Commissioner today and we have instantly accepted it," he added he said Hurriyat delegation would nominated after will be held meeting of all the Hurriyat members in Srinagar soon.
Meanwhile Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who is presently stationed in new delhi, has been holding series of meetings with various Indian leaders including retired bureaucrats, journalists, members of civil society, politicians, lawyers and even MP. Geelani personally went to Senior BJP leader Ram Jethmalani's Akbar Road residence in new delhi to meet the leader.
It is learnt, Geelani even met host of civil society members, former diplomats and army commanders . He also had a meeting with former BJP minister and film actor Shatrughan Sinha soon after Sinha returned from Pakistan visit.
Geelani is scheduled to visit metropolitans of Mumbai and Kolkatta to brief the leaders and civil society members and students about his perception about Kashmir issue and the solution to it.
The hardcore Muslim League headed by jailed Masarat Alam, in a press release few days ago, distanced itself from Geelani's activities in New Delhi. The League believes that the hard-line leader has 'softened his stand over Kashmir issue under some unseen pressure or persuasion".
The statement of the league said that the members decided that the League would neither succumb to any pressure nor would it show any flexibility in its stand on the resolution of the Kashmir dispute. We won't allow any individual or organisation to do so.
The second-line leader of the hardliner Hurriyat, Ghulam Nabi Sumjhi is also reported have raised his doubts about activities of Geelani in delhi. The hardliner leader has privately told his men that Geelani has got wrong advisors who have been advisors to lone brothers when they plunged in the election fray in 2009.
Sumjhi however, assured the members in the recently held meeting in Srinagar that he would take up this issue with Syed Ali Geelani after his return from Delhi.
Geelani's changed stance , according to hardliner Hurriyat leaders , has got blessing of Pakistani establishment besides the jehadi kashmiri leaders based in POK like Syed Salluddin. Geelani had an extensive meeting with Pakistani High Commissioner Shahid Malik and other officials of the High Commission at Geelani's Malviya Nagar residence some days back. A close aide of the hard-line leader said that in the meeting that lasted for over an hour. |
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