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Valley scoffs at Zardari’s call to set aside Kashmir
March 04, 2008
Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s statement that the new Pakistani government was ready to set aside the Kashmir issue to stabilise relations with New Delhi has won him few friends in the Valley.
From militants to separatist leaders, everyone has criticised Zardari, who is set to play a prominent role in the new government to be formed in Pakistan.
Lashkar-e-Toiba founder and chief of the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawah Pakistan Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has accused the PPP leader of “rubbing salt in the wounds” of Kashmiri people.
“He has chosen to disregard the hundreds of thousands of lives that Kashmiris have sacrificed,” Saeed said in a statement posted on the Jamaat-ud-Dawah website. “The blood of Kashmiris and Pakistanis has become one. There is no way that it can be separated. The Kashmir freedom movement is continuing and will continue in future.”
On Saturday, Zardari had said that he was ready to focus on issues other than Kashmir to improve relations with India.
Saeed also claimed that anybody who “overlooks” the sacrifices of Kashmiris would be rejected by the people of Pakistan. “Pakistanis wouldn’t allow anybody to trade the blood of martyrs,” he said.
On Sunday, the militant amalgam United Jihad Council (UJC) too had termed Zardari’s statement “political shortsightedness”.
“If Asif Zardari thinks that India and Pakistan can move ahead on the path of development by leaving Kashmiris soaked in blood, it would be foolishness on his part,” UJC spokesman Syed Sadaqat Hussain said. “Peace can’t return to India or Pakistan unless the Kashmir issue is resolved.”
The separatist leaders in Kashmir — both moderate and hardliners — too are irked by Zardari’s statement. Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani said they can’t expect any good from Zardari, while the moderates have termed it “a clear deviation” from the PPP’s longtime stance on Kashmir.
Even the mainstream National Conference feels that freezing the Kashmir issue without a solution wouldn’t lead the two countries anywhere.
Only the ruling coalition of the Congress and PDP feels Zardari’s stance is welcome. “This is a realistic shift in Pakistan’s Kashmir policy,” J-K’s Social Welfare Minister and senior vice-president of Congress Abdul Gani Vakil said
Valley scoffs at Zardari’s call to set aside KashmirBashaarat MasoodPosted online: March 04, 2008 at 2348 Print Email
Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s statement that the new Pakistani government was ready to set aside the Kashmir issue... Related StoriesSRINAGAR, MARCH 3 Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s statement that the new Pakistani government was ready to set aside the Kashmir issue to stabilise relations with New Delhi has won him few friends in the Valley.
From militants to separatist leaders, everyone has criticised Zardari, who is set to play a prominent role in the new government to be formed in Pakistan.
Lashkar-e-Toiba founder and chief of the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawah Pakistan Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has accused the PPP leader of “rubbing salt in the wounds” of Kashmiri people.
“He has chosen to disregard the hundreds of thousands of lives that Kashmiris have sacrificed,” Saeed said in a statement posted on the Jamaat-ud-Dawah website. “The blood of Kashmiris and Pakistanis has become one. There is no way that it can be separated. The Kashmir freedom movement is continuing and will continue in future.”
On Saturday, Zardari had said that he was ready to focus on issues other than Kashmir to improve relations with India.
Saeed also claimed that anybody who “overlooks” the sacrifices of Kashmiris would be rejected by the people of Pakistan. “Pakistanis wouldn’t allow anybody to trade the blood of martyrs,” he said.
On Sunday, the militant amalgam United Jihad Council (UJC) too had termed Zardari’s statement “political shortsightedness”.
“If Asif Zardari thinks that India and Pakistan can move ahead on the path of development by leaving Kashmiris soaked in blood, it would be foolishness on his part,” UJC spokesman Syed Sadaqat Hussain said. “Peace can’t return to India or Pakistan unless the Kashmir issue is resolved.”
The separatist leaders in Kashmir — both moderate and hardliners — too are irked by Zardari’s statement. Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani said they can’t expect any good from Zardari, while the moderates have termed it “a clear deviation” from the PPP’s longtime stance on Kashmir.
Even the mainstream National Conference feels that freezing the Kashmir issue without a solution wouldn’t lead the two countries anywhere.
Only the ruling coalition of the Congress and PDP feels Zardari’s stance is welcome. “This is a realistic shift in Pakistan’s Kashmir policy,” J-K’s Social Welfare Minister and senior vice-president of Congress Abdul Gani Vakil said
Jammu-Kashmir, Srinagar, Kashmiri news:: Valley scoffs at Zardari’s call to set aside Kashmir
March 04, 2008
Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s statement that the new Pakistani government was ready to set aside the Kashmir issue to stabilise relations with New Delhi has won him few friends in the Valley.
From militants to separatist leaders, everyone has criticised Zardari, who is set to play a prominent role in the new government to be formed in Pakistan.
Lashkar-e-Toiba founder and chief of the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawah Pakistan Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has accused the PPP leader of “rubbing salt in the wounds” of Kashmiri people.
“He has chosen to disregard the hundreds of thousands of lives that Kashmiris have sacrificed,” Saeed said in a statement posted on the Jamaat-ud-Dawah website. “The blood of Kashmiris and Pakistanis has become one. There is no way that it can be separated. The Kashmir freedom movement is continuing and will continue in future.”
On Saturday, Zardari had said that he was ready to focus on issues other than Kashmir to improve relations with India.
Saeed also claimed that anybody who “overlooks” the sacrifices of Kashmiris would be rejected by the people of Pakistan. “Pakistanis wouldn’t allow anybody to trade the blood of martyrs,” he said.
On Sunday, the militant amalgam United Jihad Council (UJC) too had termed Zardari’s statement “political shortsightedness”.
“If Asif Zardari thinks that India and Pakistan can move ahead on the path of development by leaving Kashmiris soaked in blood, it would be foolishness on his part,” UJC spokesman Syed Sadaqat Hussain said. “Peace can’t return to India or Pakistan unless the Kashmir issue is resolved.”
The separatist leaders in Kashmir — both moderate and hardliners — too are irked by Zardari’s statement. Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani said they can’t expect any good from Zardari, while the moderates have termed it “a clear deviation” from the PPP’s longtime stance on Kashmir.
Even the mainstream National Conference feels that freezing the Kashmir issue without a solution wouldn’t lead the two countries anywhere.
Only the ruling coalition of the Congress and PDP feels Zardari’s stance is welcome. “This is a realistic shift in Pakistan’s Kashmir policy,” J-K’s Social Welfare Minister and senior vice-president of Congress Abdul Gani Vakil said
Valley scoffs at Zardari’s call to set aside KashmirBashaarat MasoodPosted online: March 04, 2008 at 2348 Print Email
Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s statement that the new Pakistani government was ready to set aside the Kashmir issue... Related StoriesSRINAGAR, MARCH 3 Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s statement that the new Pakistani government was ready to set aside the Kashmir issue to stabilise relations with New Delhi has won him few friends in the Valley.
From militants to separatist leaders, everyone has criticised Zardari, who is set to play a prominent role in the new government to be formed in Pakistan.
Lashkar-e-Toiba founder and chief of the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawah Pakistan Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has accused the PPP leader of “rubbing salt in the wounds” of Kashmiri people.
“He has chosen to disregard the hundreds of thousands of lives that Kashmiris have sacrificed,” Saeed said in a statement posted on the Jamaat-ud-Dawah website. “The blood of Kashmiris and Pakistanis has become one. There is no way that it can be separated. The Kashmir freedom movement is continuing and will continue in future.”
On Saturday, Zardari had said that he was ready to focus on issues other than Kashmir to improve relations with India.
Saeed also claimed that anybody who “overlooks” the sacrifices of Kashmiris would be rejected by the people of Pakistan. “Pakistanis wouldn’t allow anybody to trade the blood of martyrs,” he said.
On Sunday, the militant amalgam United Jihad Council (UJC) too had termed Zardari’s statement “political shortsightedness”.
“If Asif Zardari thinks that India and Pakistan can move ahead on the path of development by leaving Kashmiris soaked in blood, it would be foolishness on his part,” UJC spokesman Syed Sadaqat Hussain said. “Peace can’t return to India or Pakistan unless the Kashmir issue is resolved.”
The separatist leaders in Kashmir — both moderate and hardliners — too are irked by Zardari’s statement. Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani said they can’t expect any good from Zardari, while the moderates have termed it “a clear deviation” from the PPP’s longtime stance on Kashmir.
Even the mainstream National Conference feels that freezing the Kashmir issue without a solution wouldn’t lead the two countries anywhere.
Only the ruling coalition of the Congress and PDP feels Zardari’s stance is welcome. “This is a realistic shift in Pakistan’s Kashmir policy,” J-K’s Social Welfare Minister and senior vice-president of Congress Abdul Gani Vakil said
Jammu-Kashmir, Srinagar, Kashmiri news:: Valley scoffs at Zardari’s call to set aside Kashmir