The Hindu : Hurriyat Conference for tripartite talks

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Thursday, Jan 02, 2003

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Hurriyat Conference for tripartite talks

Srinagar Jan. 1. The All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) today reiterated that the Kashmir issue could be resolved only through tripartite talks.

``We urge India and Pakistan to initiate a meaningful dialogue to resolve the Kashmir issue which has threatened the peace in the sub-continent,'' the senior Hurriyat Conference leader, Javid Ahmad Mir, said.

Addressing a meeting here, Mr. Mir, who is also vice-chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), said India and Pakistan, taking into consideration the tension in South Asia because of the Kashmir issue, should immediately start a dialogue.

He said the Hurriyat Conference opined that the Kashmir issue could be resolved through peaceful means across the table.

Let the two neighbours start a process, he said adding that no lasting solution to the problem was possible without involving the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

Mr. Mir said that for finding a permanent solution, holding tripartite talks was necessary as bilateral agreements in the past had failed to yield any lasting result.

He said India should leave its rigid stand and take a meaningful initiative to find lasting peace in the sub-continent as the conflict between the two neighbours on Kashmir had consumed the lives of more than one lakh Kashmiris.

Meanwhile, a spokesman of the Hurriyat Conference said a senior amalgam leader, Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar, has started an indefinite hunger strike in the Baramulla sub-jail in protest against the alleged ill-treatment of detenus there.

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