Jammu, May 20
The democratic Freedom Party, headed by Mr Shabir Ahmed Shah, has decided to involve educated youth, doctors, engineers, businessmen and others in finding a consensus on a solution to settle the Kashmir issue.
For this he has decided to hold a “round table conferences” at district headquarters in all three regions of Jammu and Kashmir.
He said today that he along with some senior party leaders would start the “exercise” from Poonch from May 27. These round table conferences with various sections of
people, irrespective of creed and religion, where various solutions dished out by a number of political leaders for settling the Kashmir issue would be discussed.
Mr Shah will hold the “conferences” in Rajaouri, Kathua, Udhampur and Jammu and two such meetings in Doda
district. This would be followed by the “conferences” in six districts of the Kashmir valley and later in Kargil and Leh.
The Democratic Freedom Party chief said that a resume of all solutions had been compiled and it includes the one dished out by Gen Pervez Musharraf. He indicated that the solution from the head of the Kashmir Study Group, Mr Farooq Ahmed Kathwari, will also be discussed.
Mr Kathwari has favoured Indo-Pak confederation on Kashmir and occupied Kashmir with two parts of the state getting full internal autonomy.
Mr Shabir Ahmed Shah plans to compile the outcome of the conference in a report tagging it with his recommendations. The report will be circulated to concerned quarters in Delhi, Islamabad and in the United Nations.
He said the report could facilitate Delhi and Islamabad in finding a durable solution to the Kashmir issue because “my party will try to get a public opinion on the need for having soft borders and border meeting points for the members of the divided families to interact frequently.”
