SYED ALI SAFVI
SRINAGAR, Oct 17: In the run up to United State’s president, Barack Obama’s first ever visit to India next month, Mirwaiz- Umar Farooq-led Hurriyat Conference (M) has sought America’s intervention as third party in resolving the 60-year old Kashmir dispute, asserting that bilateralism had failed to end the Kashmir impasse.
The executive and general council of the conglomerate, which met at central office here today with chairman Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in chair, discussed present political unrest in the valley and stressed the need for third party intervention in resolving Kashmir imbroglio.
The meeting decided that the conglomerate would launch a signature campaign tomorrow to impress upon the United States to intervene as third party to end the dispute between two nuclear powers of the subcontinent as per the wishes and aspirations of the people of the state.
“We are compelled to call for third party mediation on Kashmir as two parties to the dispute – India and Pakistan – have failed to resolve the Kashmir issue,” said Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
He said that the executive and general council of his Hurriyat faction had unanimously decided to launch a signature campaign across the valley tomorrow calling for the US intervention to end the Kashmir imbroglio.
“The signatures along with the passed resolution will be dispatched to the US embassy in New Delhi,” he said, while urging the student community, members of civil society, and scholars from different walks of life to email the content of resolution to the US president office and to the embassies of other countries.
Mirwaiz said that it was high time for the US to appoint special rapporteur also for Kashmir, as it had done in case of several conflict zones in the world.
He said that the conglomerate would step up its diplomatic efforts ahead of Obama's visit to India through various Kashmir centres across the world to highlight the urgency of ending the Kashmir impasse.
The meeting also decided to chalk out the programme to meet ambassadors of different countries in order to project the ongoing peaceful struggle in right perspective.
“We want to make them realise that unless the Kashmir dispute is resolved lasting peace would continue to elude south Asia,” he said.
Appealing to the denizens of the state to observe October 27 as ‘Black Day’, Mirwaiz said that the day symbolized the oppression of Indian occupational forces.
“It was the fateful day of October 27, 1947 when Indian troops landed in Kahsmir and forcibly occupied this land,” he said. “Ever since that day Indian troops have continued to suppress hapless people of Kashmir by force.”
The Mirwaiz said that on the day Hurriyat (M) leaders would lead a procession from different parts of the valley to UNMOGIP office and hand over the memorandum to the UN representatives.
The processions would be led by Mirwaiz umar Farooq from Srinagar, by Aga Syed Hassan Al-moosvi from Budgam, Prof Abdul Ghani Bhat from Sopore, Bilal Gani Lone from Kupwara, Moulana Masroor Abbas Ansari from Pattan, and Mukhtar Ahmad Waza from Islamabad.
Mirwaiz said that there would not be any restriction on transport on October 27.
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