Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 13: Hurriyat Conference today urged India and Pakistan to bury the hatchet and resolve all pending issues including Jammu and Kashmir.
It was said during a meeting of the Hurriyat Conference (M) which was held at Rajbagh headquarters of the party here.
The leaders stressed that the SCO summit in Kyrgyzstan provides a good opportunity for the leadership of India and Pakistan to eschew bitterness and break the ice.
They said that people of the entire region and especially Kashmir are hopeful that the leadership of the neighboring countries would utilize this opportunity to de-freeze their relationship and set the ball rolling for engagement towards resolving all pending issues including Kashmir.
The meeting appealed to both the countries to lift the ban and throw open their air spaces as the ban announced by them on their air spaces was taking a heavy toll on passengers traveling by air in both nations and subjecting them to unnecessary hardships.
They said that New Delhi should work towards resolution of the issue for improving situation in Kashmir and for the larger interests of peace and progress of people in South Asia.
The participants said that the issue can be resolved by showing political will and wisdom and any approach in this direction will yield positive results and is the most effective way forward towards a resolution.
The State Government after long time allowed the two Hurriyat Conference factions led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani to hold meetings of their respective parties which is seen here as change of heart post re-election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Hurriyat Conference (M) today held its executive, general council and the working committee meetings at its Rajbagh headquarters under the chairmanship of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in which Professor Abdul Gani Bhat, Bilal Gani Lone, Masroor Abbas Ansari, Mohammad Musadiq Adil and Mukhtar Ahmad Waza participated.
The meeting discussed Indo-Pak relations in the backdrop of recently concluded elections and the formation of new Government at New Delhi and also the prevailing political situation in Kashmir.
With regard to the situation in the Valley, they expressed serious concern and anguish over the ongoing bloodshed, security operations and killings across the Valley.
The meeting resolved that the muscular policy adopted by New Delhi towards Kashmir has failed in resolution of the issue and will not yield anything.
Mirwaiz later met Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani soon after Hurriyat (G) also held a meeting which was allowed after a long time by the Government. They also discussed various issues and latest developments in Kashmir.
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