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Permanent
Kashmir solution not without Pakistan: Padgaonkar
Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:43:34 PM, IANS
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Srinagar:
Noted journalist Dileep Padgaonkar, who arrived here Saturday
along with the other two interlocutors on Kashmir, said the team
would look at a permanent solution to the issue but added that it
would not be possible without Pakistan's involvement.
"We are here to look for a permanent solution to the Kashmir
dispute but a permanent solution is not possible without the
involvement of Pakistan," Padgaonkar said while informally talking
to reporters here.
He said the main focus of their visit was to interact with the
youth and they would "go beyond" the 15-minute traditional
sessions as the youth are the future of the state.
The three interlocutors - Padgaonkar, academician Radha Kumar and
information commissioner M.M. Ansari - arrived in the afternoon on
their first visit to the Kashmir Valley after being nominated as
interlocutors.
Both the hardline and the moderate Hurriyat groups headed by Syed
Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, respectively, have stated
they would not meet the team and also asked local trade and
student unions not to speak to them.
Padgaonkar, however, expressed hope that the team would be able to
break the ice and meet a cross-section of Kashmir society during
their four-day visit.
"We have no protocol hassles. We will knock the doors of those who
don't come to meet us," Padgaonkar said.
He added that though they have a mandate for one year, they would
be submitting interim reports every month.
"There are no borders to our discussions. We will discuss all
aspects of the Kashmir dispute with various shades of opinion
across the state," Padgaonkar said.
The three interlocutors had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Thursday and said he wanted them to look for a political solution
to the lingering crisis and especially speak to "youth and women".
Thousands of people have died since insurgency began in Jammu and
Kashmir in 1989. While things were beginning to look up last year,
the state was plunged into a fresh crisis after stone-pelting
protesters started clashing with the security forces. At least 110
people have been killed in the ongoing unrest since June 11.
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