KL Report
Srinagar
Hurriyat Conference (M) has decided that it’s delegation is going to visit Pakistan on December 17. The delegation will remain in Pakistan up to December 24, for comprehensive talks with Pakistan government.
It was decided in an executive meeting of the amalgam on Tuesday which was held at it’s Rajbagh Head office.
According to sources senior leader Shabir Ahmad Shah did not take part in the meeting and he was represented by some senior colleague.
The separatist group headed by its chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq will be traveling to Islamabad next month.
“The Hurriyat delegation will leave for Pakistan on Dec. 17 for a week-long visit to Pakistan,”said a statement after the meeting.
The Hurriyat (M) delegation during it’s visit is likely to meet the president and the prime minister of Pakistan, besides different leaders and civil society activists.
“We want to avail this opportunity to put the views of Kashmiris before Pakistani leadership,” said a Hurriyat Spokesman. “We’re not against Indo- Pak dialogue but the core issue of Kashmir has to be addressed first,” he added.
Pakistan has invited the leaders of both the factions of Hurriyat Conference to Islamabad but Syed Ali Geelani, who is heading his own faction of Hurriyat, is not having travel documents. Although Geelani has applied for a passport but It is not clear whether he will be responded positively or not.
The separatist leadership has been trying to impress upon governments in New Delhi and Islamabad for their inclusion in the dialogue process of two countries.
In September this year Mirwaiz met the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari in New York on the sidelines of the UN general assembly session.
