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India-Pakistan
Kashmir committee rejects Nicholson's report as biased
2007-01-13
A Special Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir has unanimously rejected the Kashmir report submitted with the European Union (EU) Parliament by Emma Nicholson as biased and against the ground realities in Kashmir, and has decided to send a delegation to Brussels to apprise the EU of the correct position.
“A delegation of the Kashmir committee will go to Brussels to apprise members of the European parliament of the factual situation in Kashmir.”
“A delegation of the Kashmir committee will go to Brussels to apprise members of the European parliament of the factual situation in Kashmir,” the committee was told by chairman Hamid Nasir Chattha here on Friday. However, some opposition members expressed their reservations about President General Pervez Musharraf running the Kashmir policy unilaterally without taking the committee into confidence.

The committee headed by Hamid Nasir Chattha met here at the Parliament House to discuss the EU report on Kashmir. In addition to Maj (r) Tahir Iqbal, the federal minister for Kashmir and Northern Areas Affairs, 20 MNAs, including federal and state ministers and four senators, also attended the meeting. Parliamentarians belonging to Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) did not attend the meeting, but members of some other component parties of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) were present.

Responding to membersÂ’ queries, Hamid Nasir Chattha, committee chairman, said that there was no change in the governmentÂ’s Kashmir policy and the parliament and its committees would be taken into confidence at an appropriate time. Opposition members who strongly criticised President General Pervez Musharraf over the countryÂ’s Kashmir policy belonged mainly to the PPPP. They included Raja Pervez Ashraf, Naheed Khan and Imtiaz Safdar Warriach. Chattha informed the committee that so far many amendments had been proposed in Emma NicholsonÂ’s report to rationalise it and it might not come up for discussion in the plenary session. Committee members lauded the efforts of Pakistani diplomats and the Kashmir Centre for their efforts in highlighting ground realities to bring changes in the report.
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