Awami National Conference (ANC) has invited Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and AJK Prime Minister Sardar Sikander Hayat Khan to participate in a three-day Intra-Kashmir Conference in occupied Srinagar next month.
In an open letter to the Indian Prime Minister, ANC president and former IOK chief minister G.M. Shah has expressed the hope that New Delhi would facilitate participation of invitee from the other side of the Line of Control and abroad to the conference scheduled for June 2.
The ANC chief has extended the invitation to Pakistan President and AJK Prime Minister, said a news report by Press Trust of India quoting the letter.
"We are quite sanguine that such an exercise conducted within the state on both sides of the LoC will certainly yield positive results and lay down a concrete path for resolution of the Kashmir issue and peace in the sub-continent," he said.
Shah said he had initiated the idea of the Intra-Kashmir Conference focussing on people-to-people dialogue in 2001.
He further said the conference was stalled in 2001 and 2003 due to non-availability of travel documents for the invitee and tension between the two neighbouring countries.