By IANS
Jammu : Chairman of the hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani Sunday reiterated his demand of giving Kashmiris a right to self-determination.
“The (Kashmir) issue can be resolved only through (granting) the right to self determination under the United Nations resolution on Kashmir,” Geelani told reporters in Jammu and Kashmir’s winter capital here, where he had hosted an Eid party.
According to the UN resolutions passed in 1948, Kashmiris had a choice to opt either for India or Pakistan in a plebiscite to be held under world body’s supervision.
The septuagenarian separatist leader described Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s four point formula solution for Kashmir crisis as “unacceptable”.
Musharraf’s formula is “an insult to the tens of thousands of people who sacrificed their lives for the Kashmir cause”.
The four-point formula calls for open borders, joint management, demilitarisation and self-governance on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the state between India and Pakistan.
“The sacrifices of our people were not for the solution that would be delivered by one formula or the other,” he said.
Geelani was also sceptical of the India-Pakistan dialogue process.
“What has (the) dialogue process achieved? The people are getting killed, women are being raped and the atrocities by the occupying forces in Kashmir are continuing,” he alleged.