After a meeting with leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq told  "We believe that it is the responsibility of the government of Pakistan to take all opposition parties into confidence on the Kashmir issue. We want all political parties to unite on the issue."
 

The APHC delegation also held meetings with leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement as well as Maulana Fazlur Rehman, leader of the opposition in the national assembly.
 

Opposition leaders told reporters that they backed a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute according to the wishes of the Kashmiris.

However, they refused to comment on Musharraf's four-point proposals on Kashmir, which includes de-militarization of the region. They said the proposals had not been presented in parliament and the government had not yet taken the opposition into confidence.

Farooq praised the opposition for supporting the Kashmir cause, the Daily Times reported Wednesday.

He said that meetings between the APHC delegation and opposition parties had been "very helpful". He hoped the Kashmir issue "would not be politicised in Pakistan as it had been in India".

Mian Raza Rabbani, leader of the PPP delegation, reiterated his party's stance for a peaceful solution of the Kashmir dispute.
 

"The government has not yet brought the four-point proposals in parliament for discussion. PPP will certainly comment on the suggestions when the government presents them," he said.
 

PML-N chairman Raja Zafarul Haq said it seemed that the government was in "haste" over Kashmir, adding that this attitude could complicate the situation.

Maulana Rehman, who is also secretary-general of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), Pakistan's largest rightwing Islamist alliance, said he supported a peaceful solution to the Kashmir dispute, acceptable to India and Pakistan.
 

"I appreciate the APHC for talking to the opposition parties and the government," he said.

On non-participation of Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Geelani in the peace talks, Maulana Rehman said all leaders should support APHC regardless of their internal politics.

Critical of Musharraf, he said the president's four-point proposals could lose efficacy because they had been made public 'prematurely'.

Mirwaiz has been talking in conciliatory tones on the need for a peaceful resolution and stressing that Kashmiris have shed enough blood.

While he succeeded in his talks with Sardar Atique, 'Prime Minister' of Pakistan's 'Azad Kashmir', the opposition parties there opposed any peace move, taking a hard line on the issue.