{"id":312782,"date":"2019-05-31T07:25:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T07:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312782"},"modified":"2019-05-31T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T13:25:53","slug":"hurriyat-will-support-peace-initiatives-on-kashmir-mirwaiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/hurriyat-will-support-peace-initiatives-on-kashmir-mirwaiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurriyat will support  peace initiatives on Kashmir: Mirwaiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309526 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mirwaiz-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/mirwaiz-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/mirwaiz.jpg 589w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Striking a positive note, Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday said that the Hurriyat would support all the peace initiatives that are geared to peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHurriyat will support every initiative for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute keeping in view the sentiments and aspirations of the people of Kashmir,\u201d Mirwaiz said during his weekly\u00a0 Friday sermon at the Srinagar&#8217;s Grand Mosque.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mirwaiz acknowledged the fact that\u00a0 the people of India had overwhelmingly re-elected\u00a0 Narendra Modi as the\u00a0Prime Minister.\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;This mandate gives PM Modi the opportunity and the power to play a decisive role in the resolution of the long pending Kashmir conflict,&#8221; Mirwaiz said.\u00a0\u201cIt is an opportune time to initiate political processes which enables and facilitates conflict resolution\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mirwaiz also said that Kashmiris across the political divide were speaking in favour of the resolution of the festering conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"m_6648939254822788984m_822452123286845574page\" class=\"m_6648939254822788984m_822452123286845574hfeed m_6648939254822788984m_822452123286845574site\">\n<div id=\"m_6648939254822788984m_822452123286845574content\" class=\"m_6648939254822788984m_822452123286845574site-content\">\n<div id=\"m_6648939254822788984m_822452123286845574primary\" class=\"m_6648939254822788984m_822452123286845574gk-single-post\">\n<div class=\"m_6648939254822788984m_822452123286845574entry-content m_6648939254822788984m_822452123286845574clearfix m_6648939254822788984m_822452123286845574page-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also urged New Delhi to respond to\u00a0 Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan&#8217;s\u00a0 offer of dialogue on all the outstanding issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPakistan PM Imran Khan\u2019s oft repeated offer of dialogue on all issues between India and Pakistan including Kashmir issue should be taken seriously\u00a0 by the new dispensation in New Delhi as the way forward,\u201d Mirwaiz said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said the resolution of Kashmir\u00a0\u00a0can transform the sub-continent\u00a0 and usher in a new era of stability and progress in South Asia and so it should be a goal that should be pursued seriously by India and Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striking a positive note, Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday said that the Hurriyat would support all the peace initiatives that are geared to peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue. \u201cHurriyat will support every initiative for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute keeping in view the sentiments and aspirations of the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,2596],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312783,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312782\/revisions\/312783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}