JAMMU: British Labor Party leader and shadow foreign secretary Gerald Kauffman said Sunday that his party was prepared to assist India and Pakistan in finding an amicable solution of the vexed Kashmir problem.
Our party would do anything to bring the two countries to negotiating table the British Labor leader said while talking to reporters Sunday afternoon in this winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir State where Pak-trained Muslim militants are fighting for secession from India.
Kauffman who arrived here Saturday evening after a two-day visit to valley where he met nearly 400 people and representatives of some organisations however said any solution must be agreeable to the people of Jammu and Kashmir when India and Pakistan negotiate
Describing the Kashmir situation as a serious human problem the British leader said I advise both India and Pakistan to negotiate as there were lot of sufferings mutilations and injuries to common people in both parts of Kashmir.
Kauffman said he had come to India on his own request to study the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. He said he had also visited Pakistan occupied Kashmir about two months back. Kauffman said while he did not blame either India or Pakistan for the present situation in Kashmir I am opposed to kidnappings killings and any kind of violence. Earlier the British leader visited the camps of Kashmiri migrants here.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 16, 1991
