ISLAMABAD: The leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Amanullah Khan last week returned to Pakistan from Belgium where he had been attained on the basis of a warrant that India had issued.
According to reports from Karachi he told presspersons that there should be no talks between India and Pakistan over the status on Jammu and Kashmir without the participation of the Kashmiris. He was referring to the expectations that the political future of Jammu and Kashmir would figure at the Indo-Pakistan talk’s slate to begin here on Jan.2 at the level of Foreign Secretaries.
There should be no dividing of Kashmir Amanullah Khan said in an apparent reference to the speculation here that India might propose the conversion of the existing de facto line of actual control in Jammu and Kashmir into a de jure international boundary between the two countries.
Amanullah Khan whose organization demands sovereign statehood for the Kashmiris in preference to cither a new association with Pakistan or a Continuation of their present status as the citizens of India is further reported to have said that he would not accept any decision reached by Pakistan and India alone.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 7, 1994
