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Pakistan ditched Kashmiris: Yasin Malik

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front leader Yasin Malik on Friday charged Pakistan with 'ditching' Kashmiris.

He said that he does not expect any result from the Vajpayee-Musharraf summit, as the people of Kashmir had not been included in the dialogue.

"They have been saying that there are three parties to the dispute - India, Pakistan and the Kashmiris. Now when General Pervez Musharraf is going to India for talks, Pakistan has forgotten that there is a third party," Malik said in London.

While flaying Pakistan for 'ditching Kashmiris when it mattered most', Malik praised Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee saying that he is a 'sincere person who wants to resolve the Kashmir issue'.

It was a pity that the people of the land were nowhere to be seen in the talks, he said.

"Now Vajpayee and Musharraf will decide our future. Are we animals?" he asked.

He said the Kashmir issue was neither a border nor a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan and also opposed any kind of division of Kashmir.

Division of Kashmir on communal lines would witness a blood bath like the one witnessed at the time of Partition in 1947, he added.

PTI

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