ISLAMABAD, June 15: Speakers at a roundtable here on Wednesday said no forced solution of Kashmir issue could be acceptable to the people of Kashmir. The roundtable on “Kashmir Issue and Regional Peace” was organised by the Kashmir Research Foundation in which a number of Kashmiri leaders and diplomats from the embassies of Canada, US, China, UK, Denmark participated.

Khalid Ibrahim of Azad Jammu Kashmir People’s Party alleged the visiting Hurriyat leaders for creating confusion among the Kashmiris on this side of the Line of Control. He said the Hurriyat leaders should have first met the Kashmiris and taken them into confidence and had arrived at a common agenda before meeting with the Pakistani government officials.

He stressed the need for taking measures to remove the existing confusion and creating an environment of trust to go ahead with the peace plan.

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