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India's offer for talks not
a 'serious' gesture: JKLF

Pakistan-based Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front has rejected the offer of talks by the Indian government, saying it fell "far short" of a "serious and result-bearing gesture."

The announcement by New Delhi "made no mention of solving the Kashmir issue. It just spoke of talks to establish peace," JKLF chief Amanullah Khan said and added that "mere establishment of peace would not solve the problem."

Khan, who spearheaded the start of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, said if the Indian government was "really serious" to bring about peace in the region, it "must take concrete steps to solve the Kashmir issue."

He said the best way to ensure permanent peace in South Asia was to solve the Kashmir issue "peacefully and equitably without hurting the national egos of India or Pakistan, without harming their national ideologies or legitimate national interests, without causing mass-migrations, communal or ethnic disturbances and on the basis of Kashmiri people's national aspirations."

PTI

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