Islamabad: Accusing the Indian government of "not doing enough" to push the peace process in Jammu and Kashmir, Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said he would like to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to apprise him of his discussions with the Pakistani leaders.
Mirwaiz, who is here heading a three-member All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) delegation, also believes that parties in Jammu and Kashmir were focused more on power politics rather than being serious about finding a solution to the Kashmir problem.
"I have my doubts about their sincerity. We have taken some initiative here, let us see how it goes," said Mirwaiz, who has been holding talks here with leaders in Pakistan as also from the part of Kashmir under its occupation.
Mirwaiz, who has called a meeting of political parties of POK on January 26, said on his return to India he would like to meet Singh to apprise him of the discussions he had in Pakistan.
"But I would say that Delhi would have to do a lot of things on the ground. I do not think that Delhi is doing enough to push the peace process as it is being done by Pakistan," the Hurriyat leader said.
He said that the time has come for all those Kashmiris, who believe that they have a role to bring peace in the state, to come together and address concerns of the people. "It should not be seen as a game of political one-upmanship,” he added.
Asked if Pakistan-based militant groups active in Kashmir would also be participating in the January 26 meet, Mirwaiz, emphatically said "no".
He said that the conference was an attempt to build a broad-based platform of moderate Kashmiri parties on both sides of the LoC to facilitate a more pro-active stand on the peace process.
"We want to create a consensus among people of AJK (POK) and those outside Kashmir. We want to ensure that the peace process should not go waste," said Hurriyat leader Bilal Lone, who heads the Peoples Conference, a major partner of the APHC.
Lone said he expected Musharraf to elaborate on issues like the ‘joint management’ in the next few months after which the pace of the talk process between India and Pakistan was expected to pick up.
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