Unsettled Kashmir dispute main hurdle to Pakistan-India ties: Mirwaiz

APHC chairman says the Kashmir dispute must be settled, and urges India to realise ground realities.

ISLAMABAD: All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that the Kashmir dispute is the main impediment in the cordial relations between Pakistan and India and the two countries cannot progress in economic fields without settling it.

According to Kashmir Media Service, addressing a gathering at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar on Friday  Mirwaiz said that in the prevailing circumstances and the recent APHC leaders’ visit to Pakistan was of great significance and would pave the way for settlement of the Kashmir dispute.

Mirwaiz maintained that the Pakistani leadership and people were aware of the sufferings of Kashmiris and had always extended moral, political and diplomatic support to the struggle of the Kashmiri people.

The APHC leader urged New Delhi to accept the ground realities and realise the fact that a nation could not be subjugated for too long.

Earlier, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and other APHC leaders including Professor Abdul Ghani Butt, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi, Mukhtar Ahmed Waza and Musaddiq Aadil were given a rousing welcome by a large number of people at Srinagar airport upon their return from Pakistan.