[DAWN] Senior Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has written a `secret' letter to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
, local reports said on Wednesday, setting off speculation whether the veteran hardliner has offered Islamabad a way out of the impasse in talks with India.
Reports said a three-member delegation from the Hurriyat Conference belonging to the Geelani faction met Pak envoy Abdul Basit on Tuesday and handed over a letter for Nawaz Sharif.
"We handed over Geelani sahab's letter for PM Sharif to the officials at the Pakistain 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 Mr Basit at his office and stayed there for more than an hour.
"The letter is confidential but highly important," Akbar told IANS.
"Officials at the high commission assured us that the letter will be dispatched to the Pakistain Prime Minister on Wednesday," Akbar said.
This was the first time Hurriyat members met the Pak envoy after the National Security Adviser (NSA)-level talks in New Delhi were called off by Pakistain. Geelani was slated to have a one-to-one conversation with Pakistain's NSA Sartaj Aziz
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in
goodjihadis and
badjihadis as a matter of national policy...
if the latter came for the talks.