‘Not to annoy’ India, Hurriyat barred from LeT event

An APHC delegation was 'barred' by Pak from attending a LeT-related function so as 'not to annoy' India & the West.

A visiting Hurriyat Conference delegation was “barred” by Pakistani authorities from attending a reception organised in Lahore by people linked to banned militant outfit Lashker-e-Toiba apparently “not to annoy” India and Western powers.

Hurriyat leaders, led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, were on their way to the reception on Wednesday night when a top government official asked them not to attend the event “hosted on the platform of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah”, the new organisation set up by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the founder of the LeT.

The Hurriyat team was “barred from the reception only to avoid annoying Western quarters and Delhi”, ‘The News’ quoted a guest attending the reception as saying.

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Those who attended the reception waited for over two hours before Saeed told them that the Hurriyat team would not be participating in it, the report said.

Saeed said the Jamaat “did not want to cause problems for the guests (Hurriyat leaders) or for the cause of Kashmir….”

He hinted that domestic political problems in Pakistan had diverted attention from the Kashmir issue and vowed that the “jehad would continue.”

The Hurriyat leaders are currently visiting Pakistan at the invitation of Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi for consultations with the top political leadership ahead of Qureshi’s visit to India beginning June 27.

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