NEW DELHI: A three-member Hurriyat delegation from the hardline Syed Geelani faction met the Pakistan high commissioner, Abdul Basit, Tuesday. The delegation also handed over a letter from Geelani to Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif.
This was the first meeting between the Pakistan envoy and Hurriyat leaders since the collapse of NSA dialogue last month.
“We handed over Geelani sahab’s letter for PM Sharif to the officials at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi,” Ayaz Akbar, spokesperson for the Hurriyat Conference, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Geelani’s top aides — Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah and Altaf Ahmad — met Basit at his office and stayed for more than an hour.
“The letter is confidential but highly important,” Akbar told a news agency.
“Officials at the high commission assured us that the letter will be dispatched to the Pakistan prime minister on Wednesday,” Akbar said.
?While India and Pakistan had agreed to a meeting between Pakistan NSA Sartaj Aziz and his counterpart Ajit Doval on August 24, the dialogue couldn’t took place after Pakistan backed out citing India’s “preconditions” – that Aziz not meet Hurriyat leaders before the talks and that agenda be restricted to terror. Geelani himself was scheduled to meet Aziz hours before the NSA talks on August 24.
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