HARIPUR, Feb 6: Provincial joint secretary of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy, Javed Qureshi, has said that any solution of the Kashmir problem not based on the relevant United Nations resolutions or reached without taking the nation, parliament and people of Kashmir into confidence is unacceptable.

Talking to newsmen here on Monday, the ARD leader said that the government, in order to get rid of the Kashmir issue, was planning to abandon the decades-old principled stand and undermine the struggle and sacrifices of freedom fighters.

He warned that the nation would not forgive the rulers who were bent upon imposing an imported solution of the problem.

Responding to a question, he said that President Gen Pervez Musharraf was not a true democratic leader, rather a self-imposed head of state who was not empowered to take any unilateral decision.

Mr Qureshi said that parliament, the nation and the Kashmiri people must be taken into confidence before taking any decision on the issue.

He also asked the Indian leadership to demilitarize the occupied Kashmir and allow the Kashmiri people to decide their fate through a plebiscite.

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