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PM for 'practical' solution to Kashmir issue
Tajikistan News.Net
Sunday 25th October, 2009 (IANS)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday he favoured 'practical, pragmatic solutions' to the Jammu and Kashmir problem and a dialogue with the separatist Hurriyat Conference.
Stating that he planned to visit Jammu and Kashmir in a few days to inaugurate railway projects, Manmohan Singh he was not going there to 'start negotiations or to engage in negotiations myself.
'I have always maintained that it is our sincere desire to engage all sections of political opinion in Jammu and Kashmir to find practical, pragmatic solutions to the problems facing the state.
'I recognize that there are some political groups who are outside the mainstream. We would like them also to engage in a constructive dialogue with us.
'I have already had two or three meetings with the Hurriyat people. They promised to come back with specific suggestions. I am still waiting for them,' he said.
The prime minister is due to open 12-km railway line connecting Anantnag and Qazigund in the Kashmir Valley. The trip was originally scheduled for Oct 18 but it was postponed due to non-availability of Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee.  Email this story to a friend
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Khan
10-27-09, 10:57 AM |
PM for 'practical' solution to Kashmir issue
âFirst step towards kashmir solution withdrawal of troopsâ
Srinagar, October 26 (KMS): Senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, has said that the first step towards peaceful and durable solution of the Kashmir dispute can be withdrawal of Indian troops from occupied Kashmir.
Syed Ali Gilani in a written speech addressed to the participants of the Intra-Kashmir Conference in London said, âIn our opinion the first step towards a peaceful and durable solution of the long standing unresolved dispute of Jammu and Kashmir is withdrawal of troops.â
âThereafter, all the three parties to the dispute that is genuine representatives of struggling masses of the state, India and Pakistan need to sit across the table and discuss the modalities for the exercise to right to self determination in light of UN resolutions,â it read.
The senior Hurriyet leader pointed out that India, Pakistan and international community was duty bound to solve the dispute in its historical perspective and in the interest of peace and security of South Asia.
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Khan
10-27-09, 11:01 AM |
Black Day observed in Indian Occupied Kashmir
Black Day marked with strike in IHK observed
Early settlement of Kashmir dispute stressed
Srinagar, October 27 (KMS): Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and all across the world observed Black Day, today, to demonstrate to the international community that despite Indian state terrorism they reject its illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Day was marked with complete strike in the occupied territory.
All business establishments, government, semi-government and private offices, educational institutions, banks and courts remained closed and traffic was off the road. Indian police personnel intercepted a procession at Rambagh and arrested dozens of Hurriyet activists.
It was on October 27 in 1947 when Indian troops invaded Kashmir in clear violation of the partition plan of the Sub-continent and the Kashmirisâ aspirations. The shutdown will continue tomorrow on Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singhâs visit to occupied Kashmir to convey him that Kashmiri people wanted right to self-determination and not petty perks and privileges by the Indian government. Call for the strike has been given by senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, APHC leaders, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Nayeem Ahmed Khan and Ghulam Ahmed Mir.
Syed Ali Gilani, in a media interview in Srinagar, today, said that India would not be able to intimidate the Kashmiri people to submission through military might. He said that the international community should come forward in a big way to resolve the Kashmir dispute.
The High Court Bar Association of occupied Kashmir in an extra-ordinary meeting in Srinagar with President, Mian Abdul Qayoom in chair, urged India to give up intransigence and take steps towards resolving the Kashmir dispute
In London, speakers at a conference on Kashmir organised by Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on defence and security emphasised early solution of the Kashmir dispute to ensure peace in South Asia in particular and the world in general. They included the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, Asif Durrani, Professor Nazir Ahmed Shawl, John Cushanan, MP Paul Rowan, Victoria Schofield, Prof. Michael Clarke, Prof. Richard Bonney, Prof. Malcolm Chalmers, Dr. Ajai Sahni, and Ved Bhasin.
The Chairman of Kashmir Centre Brussels, Barrister Abdul Majeed Tramboo in a statement urged India to stop killing innocent people in occupied Kashmir to show its sincerity to resolve the Kashmir dispute through talks.
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