'No Breakthrough Expected'

The forthcoming Indo-Pak summit will not achieve a breakthrough on the Kashmir issue as the 'principal party' to the dispute, the 'genuine Kashmirleadership' is not involved in it, Yasin Malik, chairman ofthe Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has said. 

"I do not expect any kind of breakthrough on Kashmirbecause (of) Musharraf and Vajpayee meeting," he said andasked how's it possible for them to discuss Kashmir withoutthe participation of the genuine Kashmir leadership? 

For breaking the deadlock, "at least there must be aprocess for a dialogue without any precondition. There must beno conditions from anybody, any other parties, let us discussthe Kashmir dispute without conditions," Malik said in aninterview to BBC World's Asia Today programme telecast lastnight. 

"So there are no moral and legal rights to discuss theKashmir issue without the participation of the principal partyto the Kashmir dispute, that is the people of Jammu & Kashmir.So I do not find any kind of hope in this seminar. So it is I think the two imperialist powers are meeting and they cannotdiscuss the fate of the people of Jammu & Kashmir," he said. 

To a specific question whether he and the All Party Hurriyat Conference did not want a settlement, Malik said"definitely we want a settlement, but settlement can not betwo heads of the state meeting and deciding the fate of thepeople. 

Malik said negotiation was impossible till all concernedparties to the dispute were present at the negotiating table.Claiming that his party had taken a principled stand,the JKLF leader said he wanted India and Pakistan to resolvethe issue by discussing it with the "principal parties - thegenuine leadership of Kashmir." 

Asked whether ending militant violence was not the firststage, Malik said he wanted the Indian government to allow the Hurriyat delegation to visitPakistan to hold discussions withmilitant leaders and reach a bilateral ceasefire.Following that, there would be a "genuine dialogueprocess in which Kashmir issue will be resolved amicably and adignified solution can be final," he added.