India to allow Hurriyat leaders' Pak trip
India will allow leaders of Kashmir's main separatist political alliance to visit Pakistan for talks on the disputed region's future, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview published yesterday.
Pakistan has issued an invitation to the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of about two dozen political groups, to visit on June 2.
India has previously been reluctant to let Hurriyat leaders, some of whom seek independence for Kashmir and others a merger with Pakistan, to travel to Pakistan.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. "Now we have a breakthrough. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has allowed them to travel to Pakistan," Musharraf told the Daily Times.
"So once they talk to us and they also talk to the Indian government, which we will try to facilitate, we shall have a trilateral arrangement going."
Hurriyat leaders said on Monday they had yet to receive an official invitation from Pakistan.
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