LAHORE, Nov 11: Overseas based Afghan leaders, including former prime minister Gulbadin Hikmatyar, have contacted relevant Pakistani embassies for visas to attend the Pak-Afghan solidarity conference being organized by the Millat Party in Islamabad on Nov 14.

This was claimed by MP chief organizer Muhammad Ali Durrani at a press conference here on Sunday. He, however, did not say that how many leaders, from within Pakistan and abroad, had so far confirmed their participation in the proposed conference.

The moot was earlier scheduled to be held on Nov 6. But it had to be postponed for, what the party officials said, some problems of the Afghan leaders.

Mr Durrani demanded that the government should immediately issue visas and other documents to the Afghan leaders based in Iran, Afghanistan and other countries.

He urged the government to cooperate in the efforts launched by his party to resolve the miseries being faced by the Afghan people.

According to him, the moot was being organized to check feared conflict between the two nations (Pakistani and Afghan) on the issue of incessant bombing of US-led forces on Afghanistan. After the moot, a delegation will be sent to the states neighbouring Afghanistan to find a political solution to the crisis.

The delegation would also meet European Union authorities and United Nations secretary-general in this regard, he said.

According to independent media reports, hundreds of innocent civilians have so far been killed in the allied forces bombing. Many hospitals, food godowns and houses have been destroyed in the ‘missed’ attacks on the Taliban frontlines in Afghanistan.

Giving the policy of his party on Afghan crisis, Mr Durrani said the attacks were not a wise step to solve the terror question. “They will neither serve American and European interest and world peace, nor will they check terrorism,” he said.

About the immediate impacts of the conference on the crisis, he said the moot was being held to build a pressure on the allied forces for halting their attacks on innocent civilians. It did not aim at bringing a political change in Afghanistan, he said, adding only Afghans were entitled to decide about changing their rulers.