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India should let Hurriyat leaders
visit Pak: Qazi

"You (India) don't allow them to travel to Pakistan, you are not talking to Pakistan. The first step that India needs to take is to review that so we have a negotiating process acceptable to all and including all," the Pakistani envoy told Eenadu TV in an interview to be telecast on Sunday, an ETV release said.

Of the seven members of the executive committee of the All Party Hurriyat Conference, only two have passports and can travel abroad. "So, in these circumstances, how do we move forward?" he asked.

Pakistan, he said, has responded positively to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's initiative of November 19 by its own initiative along the Line of Control.

"This was designed to strengthen and stabilise the ceasefire and which reiterates our commitment to Lahore Declaration and Shimla Agreement. It reiterates our commitment to an agenda, which includes Kashmir as the most important issue, but includes other disputes also," he said.

Qazi said, "The Line of Control does not divide Kashmir - it is a ceasefire line and not a boundary. The people of Kashmir do not accept the LoC as dividing their territory. The territory of Kashmir is the territory of the state of Jammu and Kashmir as it was in 1947."

"A plebiscite would apply to the entire region," he said.

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