London, June 28: While the US has shown keen interest in the resolution of the Kashmir dispute and is ready to play a supportive and advisory role for peace in the Himalayan region, it does not have any road map to suggest an end to the 50-year old imbroglio. According to a four-member delegation of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, which has just concluded a visit to US at the invitation of the American government, representatives of the US State Department conveyed that the dispute has to be "resolved through a process of dialogue."
"The USA has no 'road map' for resolution of the Kashmir dispute. The dispute has to be resolved by the concerned parties. However, as a friend America is prepared to play its supportive and advisory role," Abbas Butt, president of JKLF (UK and Europe), told reporters here on return from the US.
While tackling the dispute the views of Kashmiri people have to be ascertained and "violence and extremism has to be opposed as it is not the way forward" the State Department officials were quoted as saying by Shabir Choudhury, chairman of the diplomatic committee of JKLF.
The JKLF leaders claimed that the US government officials "concurred" with their view that the All Party Hurriyat Conference "was not a representative" of the Kashmiri people and it "lacked" a vision and a "programme" to tackle the situation. Bureau Report