New Delhi: Senior separatist Kashmiri leader Shabir Shah has asked the Central
government to allow Pakistani Kashmir Committee (PKC) to visit India ahead of the
SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation) summit in Islamabad as
a "goodwill gesture to break the deadlock" over the Kashmir issue.
Shah, who met Kashmir Committee chairman Ram Jethmalani, asked him to
bring "concrete proposals" with regard to resolution of the Kashmir issue during its
proposed visit to Kashmir in the coming days.
"The Government of India should allow Pakistani Kashmir Committee to visit Delhi as
a goodwill gesture before the SAARC summit in Islamabad in January," the Jammu and
Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP) president said.
"There is no other alternative to holding of trilateral talks involving India,
Pakistan and people of Kashmir to resolve the Kashmir issue," Shah said,
adding "some day all the three parties have to sit on a negotiating table and it is
better if it happens soon".
He said besides meeting Jethmalani, he had held talks with PKC leader Sardar Abdul
Qayoom to discuss possibilities of resolving the vexed problem "because of which a
danger is lurking over the entire sub-continent".
He said he had told Jethmalani to "bring concrete proposals when he comes to
Kashmir. We will also give our proposals so that there is forward movement for
resolution of the issue".
On the recently-held elections to the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, he said these
could "at best meet the administrative needs and not resolve the core
problem".
PTI
