India should allow meeting of Kashmiri leaders from both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) to discuss options for a just solution of the Indian occupied Kashmir issue said President AJK Muslim Conference Sardar Atiq Ahmed Khan on Sunday. Such a meeting of Kashmiri leaders can take place in New Delhi if India is not ready to lift travel restrictions on leadership of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Atiq told APP in an interview before his departure to Islamabad late Saturday.
He was here to attend a 2-day international peace conference from October 25 to 26 to discuss peace and security issues in South Asia.
India can make another important confidence building measure (CBM) by facilitating such a meeting, he said.
He said President General Pervez Musharraf had made a "very important initiative by floating various options on Indian occupied Kashmir which needed a cool-headed debate by the Kashmiris the main party to the long-pestering dispute.
In his opinion, these options will help untangle the labyrinth of Indian occupied Kashmir dispute which has defied every effort made so far for its lasting solution.
Atiq said the international community particularly the US should help Pakistan, India and Kashmiris to seize this historic moment for making lasting peace in South Asia through a peaceful solution of the Indian occupied Kashmir issue which was main source of friction between two nuclear neighbours.
Appreciating latest call by European Parliament for a peaceful settlement of the Indian occupied Kashmir issue, Atiq said, EU was hub of activities in Europe hence should play its role in solution of the Indian occupied Kashmir. He lauded EU efforts in pushing forward the peace talks in the region and highlighting Kashmiris right to self-determination.
He urged the international community to acknowledge various CBMs taken by Pakistan and prevail upon India to stop its human rights abuses in Indian occupied Kashmir. The militancy in Indian occupied Kashmir, he said, was result of Indian "state- terrorism" let loose by its eight hundred thousand troops deployed to quell the popular and indigenous movement there.
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