Syed Ali Shah Geelani, chairman of the hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference, on Monday said he would meet the visiting Pakistani delegation headed by Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan and convey to it that the only way to resolve the Kashmir issue was to hold a plebiscite there.
"I am going to put my viewpoint across to the delegation," Geelani told reporters in Srinagar before leaving for Delhi. The Hurriyat leader said Pakistan and European countries, supporting the Kashmiris' cause, should persuade India to implement United Nation resolutions on Kashmir, adding that a plebiscite be held there.
He said the issue should be addressed in its historic perspective. He also flayed the UN for 'not acting as per its mandate to resolve issues facing the world.'
"It has become ineffective and a puppet in the hands of the United States, which vetoed a resolution condemning Isreali attack on Palestine. The world body is not working independently," Geelani added.
Asked why then he was demanding implementation of United Nations resolutions, he said it had become ineffective but the resolutions passed by it long ago (on Kashmir issue) are still