Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Monday met Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and foreign minister Shah Mohammad Qureshi in New York.
A spokesman of the amalgam, in a statement to Press Bureau of India, said that the Mirwaiz Umar informed the Pakistan president— who was accompanied besides Shah Mohammad Qureshi, Pakistan‘s foreign secretary Salman Bashir, High Commissioners to New Delhi and United States, Shahid Malik and Hasnain Haqani respectively—about the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Pakistan president, he said, reiterated the full support from Islamabad to the people of Kashmir on moral, political, diplomatic levels.
Zardari ruled out as possibility for Pakistan to put the Kashmir issue on back burner. He said that Islamabad craves for dialogue with India with particular impetus on Kashmir issue. “Indo-Pak trade can’t be restored at the cost of Kashmir,” Zardari was quoted as saying by the spokesman.
Asif Ali Zardari reassured people of Kashmir that the corner stone of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party was laid by its fonder late Zulfikar Ali Bhuto to highlight the cause of Kashmiris on all fronts.
Mirwaiz, who is presently in New York in connection with the meetings of Organisation of Islamic Conference, also informed the Pakistan officials about the deteriorating condition of Kashmiri prisoners and Human rights in the state, the spokesman said.
Mirwaiz also thanked the people of Pakistan for their support to the birth right of Kashmiris and hoped that they would continue their support in future also, the spokesman added.
On Sunday, Foreign Minister of Iran, Manouchehr Mottaki held a meeting with Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and expressed solidarity with the people of Kashmir. (PBI)
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