India has approved a proposal to send a delegation comprising pro-India members of so-called Kashmir Legislature to Pakistan as a goodwill gesture. Media reports say that a few months back the presiding officers of both the so-called houses, Chairman of Legislative Council, Amrit Malhotra the Speaker of Legislative Assembly, Muhammad Akbar Lone had forwarded a written proposal to puppet Chief Minister Omar Abdullah seeking approval of a "good will delegation" of legislators to visit Pakistan, KMS reported.
The chief minister forwarded the proposal to the Government of India for approval. New Delhi recently gave a nod to the proposal thus clearing the way for the delegation's visit to Pakistan, the reports added. After the clearance, the law department of occupied Kashmir has asked the presiding officers to furnish the names of at least three members, each from both houses, who would be part of this delegation to visit Pakistan.
Apart from these six members, Chairman Legislative Council Amrit Malhotra, Speaker Mubarak Gul, Law Minister Saifullah Mir, Law Secretary Farhat Tasneem, Secretary Assembly Mohammad Ramzan and Secretary LC Mohammad Ashraf Mir would also be part of this delegation, the reports added. Political observers, however, believe that selective permission to only the pro-India Kashmiri leaders will not help make a progress on resolution of the Kashmir dispute unless India allows all the Kashmiri leaders irrespective of their political ideologies to pay a visit to Pakistan and Azad Kashmir.