Srinagar, May 26 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the leaders of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, reaffirming Kashmiris resolve to continue liberation struggle, have sought proposals and suggestions from intellectuals and media persons for the resolution of the Kashmir dispute.
The leaders including the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt and Shabbir Ahmed Shah were addressing a seminar in Srinagar entitled “Kashmir-Sentiments, Sacrifice and Realism.”
The seminar was organised in the memory of prominent Kashmiri martyred leaders, Mirwaiz Moulvi Mohammad Farooq and Khawaja Abdul Ghani Lone, which was also attended by Maulana Abbas Ansari, Bilal Ghani Lone, Fazl Haq Qureshi, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Zaffar Akbar Butt, Shaukat Bakhshi, Professor Sheikh Shaukat Hussain and Dr Hamida Nayeem.
Stressing for bringing realism in the sentiment, the APHC Chairman said that there had been different phases in our movement and now our effort was to think about future strategy. He maintained that India wanted status quo on Kashmir and emphasised that talking to India was more important this time rather than thinking about the results, adding, “If we will make an effort and then fail, history will write it. But if we will sit in our homes, history will never forgive us. There is no guarantee that after talking to India, the Kashmir dispute would be solved, but we have to make efforts.”
Professor Abdul Ghani Butt said, “Realism is that we have to move in a right direction with a strategy keeping in view sentiments and sacrifices of Kashmiris.” “Kashmiris can never bow their head before any power. The sentiment can be suppressed and silenced for some time, but it can never be killed,” he added.
Shabbir Ahmad Shah said that freedom was the deep-rooted sentiment of Kashmiris adding that sentiments never die. He pointed out that the APHC would not reject any proposal without studying it.
Describing Kashmir as a political issue, Shabbir Ahmed Shah said it needed political solution. “We’ve not withdrawn from right to self-determination and UN resolutions, but we are always ready to talk outside it, if the talks are result oriented,” he added.