MUZAFFARABAD, May 5: An opposition lawmaker here on Friday criticised the army's top brass for trying to impose a solution to the Kashmir issue that he feared did not take into account aspirations of the Kashmiris.Mohammad Hanif Awan, People’s Party Azad Jammu and Kashmir (PPAJK) legislator from Muzaffarabad, also criticised veteran Kashmiri leader Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan for "blindly following the generals to protect the long cherished rule of his son, Sardar Attique Ahmed, in AJK, achieved with the blessings of the army and its controlled institutions."

"The generals are out to bulldoze the aspirations of the Kashmiris to thrust upon them a so-called solution to the festering issue," he alleged, adding the policy pursued by a set of ‘cowardly’ generals also betrayed the commitment, role and sacrifices of the common soldiers and the people of Pakistan for the cause of Kashmiris.

"Its simply wishful thinking to assume that such a solution can bring peace.

Rather the situation (in Kashmir) will turn worse from bad," he said.

Mr Awan was speaking to journalists in the context of Sardar Qayyum's tour to New Delhi and his remarks which, according to him, had been made at the behest of the military-led regime in Islamabad.

"No doubt, Sardar Sahib is a veteran leader but unfortunately he seems to be bent upon lowering his stature and respect. He should rise above the local politics as well as paternal love and should not go by the diktats of the people who had facilitated his son's entry in the office of prime minister," he remarked.

Mr Awan supported right to self-determination for the Kashmiris, envisaged by the United Nations Security Council resolution, saying it offered the best way to resolve the longstanding dispute.