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Pakistan say Delhi-Hurriyat talks futile without us
21-11-2009
Islamabad, (Press Trust of India & GK News Network):
Pakistan Friday said that any talks between the Indian government and separatist Kashmiri leaders will not be successful without its involvement.
They will “not be successful” unless Pakistan is involved in such parleys, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told reporters in his home town of Multan.
His comments came a day after a meeting of Hurriyat Conference (M) leaders, chaired by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq in Srinagar, to decide if they should go for talks with the Centre. The meeting remained inconclusive, with some of the leaders demanding that all stakeholders, including leaders from outside the separatist amalgam be taken into confidence before going ahead.
Qureshi also denied reports that there were back channel contacts between India and Pakistan.
He said Pakistan wanted a “meaningful” result-oriented dialogue with India and that he had conveyed this to his counterpart S M Krishna in Kabul during their meeting on the sidelines of the swearing in ceremony of Hamid Karzai as the President of Afghanistan for a second five-year term.
When asked whether Pakistan will face any pressure from the US to act against perpetrators of Mumbai attacks following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s November 22-25 visit there, Qureshi said Islamabad will not take pressure from any quarter, including Washington, and everybody should realise this.
Reacting cautiously to Pakistan Foreign Minister’s comments, Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq made it clear that the conglomerate stood for tripartite talks between India, Pakistan and Kashmiris for the resolution of the issue. “We seek purposeful dialogue with both the parties, that’s why Hurriyat maintains that bilateralism has failed. History stands testimony to the fact that bilateral talks in the past have not yielded any results,” Mirwaiz told Greater Kashmir this evening.
Mirwaiz said no pact between India and Pakistan or between India and Kashmiris could prove result-oriented. “Our principled position on negotiations is that these (talks) have to be held between India, Pakistan and Kashmiris. We stand for tripartite talks,” he said. Email this story to a friend | Printable Version
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