Pitch in, Shabir tells Musharraf

SRINAGAR, MAY 19. In a significant development, the president of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, Mr. Shabir Ahmad Shah, today wrote to the Pakistan Chief Executive, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, urging Islamabad to come forward and contribute towards the restoration of peace and stability in the subcontinent.

All the three parties to the Kashmir issue - India, Pakistan and the people of Jammu and Kashmir - should come forward and contribute to the restoration of peace and stability in the region as ``bottlenecks'' had been removed, he told PTI.

Asked what were the bottlenecks that had been removed, he said, ``New Delhi no longer considers the Kashmir issue a law and order problem but a dispute.'' The letter would be delivered to the Pakistani envoy, Mr. Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, in New Delhi tomorrow.

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