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| Umar Farooq fails to woo PPP | | Jamaat-e-Islami asks APHC not to betray Kashmiris | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JAN 22
If Friday and Saturday threw up encouraging signals in Pakistans for the three-member Hurriyat Conference delegation from Kashmir largely due to warm courtesies extended by the Musharraf camp, Sunday had somewhat unsavoury messages for the "honourable guests" headed by Maulvi Umar Farooq.
Message number one was from the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), which asked Kashmir's All-Party Huriyat Conference (APHC) not to "betray" the Kashmiri people. JI leaders from Bagh told a news conference that Islamabad and New Delhi had no authority to decide how the Kashmir issue would be resolved. They charged Maulvi Umar Farooq, chief of the moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference, with advocating proposals of Gen. Parvez Musharraf and Indian Premier, Manmohan Singh, seeking division of Kashmir.
More importantly, the JI leaders dropped the brick on the three-member APHC delegation (now in Pakistan) by calling the Srinagar-based hardline separatist stalwart, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the "genuine" Kashmiri leader. Having found the Prime Minister of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), Attique Ahmad, warmly flirting with the Hurriyat leaders in Islamabad on Saturday, the Jamaat-e-Islami leaders said that he had been made a weak Prime Minister to ignore the Kashmir issue and misappropriate earthquake relief aid.
Political observers attach much importance to the decision of the APHC delegation to extend their stay in Pakistan by three more days. Their "political journey" into Pakistan will now end on January 27.
Media reports from Islamabad confirmed that Maulvi Umar Farooq and his delegation members have failed to convince the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of to accept President Pervez Musharraf's proposal for the resolution of the Kashmir dispute. The APHC delegation held a meeting with the PPP (of PoK) and its allies at the PPP Secretariat on Sunday and discussed Gen. Musharraf's four-point plan.
Kashmir People's Conference chairman, Bilal Lone, Prof. Abdul Ghani Bhatt, ocupied Kashmir's PPP chief,Chaudhry Majeed, senior vice president, Chaudhry Yasin, and secretary general, Chaudhry Lateef Akbar, opposition leader, Qamaruz Zaman, and Jammu Kashmir People's Party president, Khalid Ibrahim, attended the meeting. PPP leaders insisted that the Kashmir dispute could only be resolved in line with the United Nations resolutions. The APHC also failed to convince the PPP on working relations group meetings in Muzzaffarbad and Srinagar. The meeting lasted 30 minutes and the APHC and the PPP decided to meet again on January 23.
The Hurriyat leaders were reported to have said that they were disappointed by the opposition parties' rigid stance. "All parties, ruling or opposition, religious or nationalist, should unite on one agenda for the solution of the Kashmir issue", Maulvi Umer Farooq was quoted as saying.
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