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| Modi-Sharif meeting: Omar, separatists on same page | | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 25 : As the prime ministers of India and Pakistan carved out a surprise get together in Pakistan today, NC working president Omar Abdullah and separatists of Kashmir took to same page.
Minutes after the news about the surprise get together of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pak counterpart Nawaz Sharief, Omar took to Twitter, welcoming the meet.
In one Tweet, he wrote: "The re-engagement with Pakistan is a good step and a very welcome development. However, more than grand gestures, we need consistency." In another tweet, he said: "Indo-Pak relations have been plagued by knee-jerk reactions and a lack of consistency, looking towards two PMs to correct this this time." "Now waiting for the statement from J&K government claiming that Mufti Syed was the one who forced PM Modi to visit Lahore today," Omar said in another tweet. Same kind of reactions also surfaced from Separatist leaders over the unscheduled get together of Modi and Sharief. Abdul Gani Bhat openly pledged his support to the resumption of dialogue process between India and Pakistan. Bhat had remained in news earlier for meeting Mufti Muhammad Syed at his Gupkar residence at a time when PDP and BJP was considering to form the coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir. Reportedly in his statement, Bhat who heads Muslim Conference, said that "While taking stock of the changing mind sets and attitudes in the sub-continent with reference to the situation obtaining across the globe, Muslim Conference pledges support to the resumption of what is now termed as comprehensive dialogue to resolve all disputes, including of course the dispute of Kashmir and consider this development as an effectively civilized means to move out from the frozen yesterdays to a peacefully productive tomorrow." "Conceding that no dialogue process has up till today produced any results, the Muslim Conference understands that it is now different in the backdrop of the dynamics of global economic liberalization as an order, which feels that peace and disputes can never co-exist and as such the dispute on Kashmir will have to be resolved. Let no gloom of yesterdays blur any prospect of a better and brighter tomorrow," the statement said. Separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, while talking to reporters, also pledged their support to the ongoing dialogue process between India and Pakistan. Separatists, who were ousted from dialogue process by Ministry of External Affairs by terming upcoming official engagements between India and Pakistan as "bilateral", were earlier criticising the two countries for showing them the door. Meanwhile, Modi surprised everybody after announcing this morning on Twitter that he would travel to Pakistan to greet Prime Minister of Pakistan on his birthday after returning from Afghanistan. |
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