Pak invites Hurriyat leaders, visit from June 2

<div class="section0"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">ISLAMABAD: Pakistan announced on Monday that it has extended an invitation to all the leaders of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) to visit Pakistan, a move perceived to be aimed at bringing the Kashmiri leadership into confidence over the recent peace initiatives with India.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="">The Hurriyat leaders have been invited for a visit starting from June 2, and it would be their first ever trip to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir."People of Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Pakistan-administered Kashmir) are anxiously waiting for their arrival. We hope they come as a very warm welcome awaits them," foreign office spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani told reporters.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="">"We have extended the invitation to all the Hurriyat leaders including Mr Geelani. He is a very well respected Kashmiri leader," Jilani said, while responding to a question whether hardline separatist leader Sayeed Ali Geelani was also invited.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="">The agenda and programmes will be finalised later on, he said.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="">However, sources said the Kashmiri leadership would hold talks with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and other officials regarding the ongoing peace initiatives between the two countries to resolve all the outstanding issues including Kashmir issue.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="">The leaders are likely to travel by Sringar-Muzaffarabad bus, whose service was recently resumed to facilitate movement among the divided Kashmiri families living on both sides of the LoC.</span><br /></div> </div>