Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference has sought help of Pakistan High Commission to
facilitate meeting of Kashmir Committee headed by Ram Jethmalani with that led by
Sardar Abdul Qayyum in Pakistan despite opposition from one of its constituents,
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF).
A Hurriyat Conference team comprising its chairman Abdul Gani Bhat and his
predecessor Mirwaiz Umer Farooq met Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan in Delhi J
A Gillani and asked him to help in facilitating such a meeting.
"We want that the two committees should meet and try to do their bit in resolving
the Kashmir issue," the Mirwaiz, who returned from Delhi, said.
The Hurriyat leaders decided to go ahead with seeking the help of Pakistan despite
stiff opposition from JKLF, which had said that the people of Kashmir were
represented only by the Hurriyat Conference.
Asked about the criticism of JKLF, the Mirwaiz sought to downplay this and said the
acting chairman of JKLF is a signatory to a joint statement issued in Delhi earlier
where "we authorised the Kashmir Committee to explore ways and means to find a
solution to the Kashmir issue".
The JKLF had flayed the Mirwaiz for his remarks that Kashmir Committee should go to
Pakistan and hold a meeting with the Committee led by Sardar Abdul Qayyum.
PTI
