ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The visiting All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) delegation led by its chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq will call on President Gen Pervez Musharraf here on Thursday, it is learnt.
The three-member delegation that arrived here on Monday includes executive members of the Conference Prof Abdul Ghani Bhat and Bilal Ghani Lone.
At the meeting with President Musharraf on top of the menu will be Kashmir issue and various options being discussed at different levels. Detailed discussions on President Musharraf’s proposals of demilitarisation and self-governance in Kashmir are expected. These have been mooted as interim measures towards the settlement of the dispute.
Consultations on these proposals are continuing between Islamabad and New Delhi through ‘quiet’ unofficial channels. After New Delhi’s initial denial about it the Indian National Security Adviser last month for the first time publicly acknowledged the fact.
The APHC delegation’s meeting with the president assumes significance as it takes place in less than two weeks before the foreign secretaries-level talks between Pakistan and India at which the key issues of Jammu and Kashmir and peace and security will be taken up.
On arrival in Lahore the Mirwaiz told reporters that the delegation would be discussing with President Musharraf his proposals on Kashmir including demilitarisation.—Q.A.
