Srinagar: Syed Ali Geelani, Chairman of Hurriyat Conference G on Thursday rejected any track two diplomacy, aimed at upholding of status quo on Kashmir. Geelani, in an interview to a local newsgathering agency, said that even if Pakistan yielded to any such diplomacy, the same would not be acceptable to the people of Kashmir.
He expressed his opinion while commenting on the visit of Prime Minister’s special envoy S K Lambah to valley. No Track-II diplomacy that is aimed at continuation of status quo is acceptable to people of Kashmir, he said, adding that Kashmir is an internationally recognized dispute which needs to be resolved as per the political aspirations of its people.
Ridiculing Lambahs remarks that there can be no redrawing of boundaries, Geelani said that the remarks are unrealistic and based on the traditional rigid approach of New Delhi. Kashmir is not a bilateral or border dispute between India and Pakistan and the countries will resolve it mutually but it pertains to the fate of 13 million people who are living in Jammu, Kashmir Ladakh, Pakistan Administered Kashmir Gilgit and Baltistan. It is a dispute which can be resolved only after taking people of the Kashmir on board. Even if India and Pakistan agrees to any such formulae, or God forbid Pakistan yields to any machinations for upholding status quo, it will not be acceptable to the people of Kashmir, he opined.
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