Passports to all or Pak visit is off -- Hurriyat

Passports to all or Pak visit is off -- Hurriyat
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

SRINAGAR, JAN 6: Senior Hurriyat Conference leader and President of Ithadul Musliumeen, Maulana Mohammad Abbas Ansari, has said that the 23-party separatist alliance would not make trip to Pakistan if the Centre refuses to issue passports to any one of its executive members.

"Going to Pakistan does not make any sense'' if any one of the seven members of the executive council, the highest decision making body of Hurriyat, is denied travel documents," Ansari said while addressing an Eid Milan organised by his party here on Friday.

He said Hurriyat would like to see New Delhi initiate a sincere political process for the settlement of the Kashmir issue.

He said during the proposed Pakistan trip, Hurriyat leaders would persuade the militant leadership for a comprehensive ceasefire if "India initiates steps for final and meaningful settlement of the Kashmir dispute.''

Referring to J&K Democratic Freedom Party president, Shabir Ahmad Shah, who was suspended from the organisation two years ago, Ansari said that though it was difficult to merge the identities of all the Hurriyat constituents, the alliance would welcome Shah's return to the fold.