‘Britain had a key role in creating Kashmir dispute’
Srinagar | March 09 : Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Geelani has said that the lives of over 15 million people of Kashmir have been made a hell due to the lingering Kashmir dispute.
Reacting to the statement of British Foreign Secretary, Phillip Hammond, who had addressed a press conference in Islamabad, yesterday, advised Pakistan against making Kashmir dispute a precondition for resumption of Pak-India talks, Geelani said in a statement issued in Srinagar that Kashmir was the only core issue between Pakistan and India, and sidelining this issue had neither yielded anything positive in the past, nor would it do so in future.
He said that Britain had a key role in creation of the Kashmir dispute. He maintained that dreaming of durable peace in South Asia without resolving the Kashmir dispute was nothing but a deception.
Meanwhile, Hurriyat leaders, Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar, Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, and delegation of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and Salvation Movement visited Qaimoh area of Kulgam and paid tributes to a militant youth, who was recently killed in a gun battle with government forces. (PTK)