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Krishna downplays Mirwaiz's China visit | External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Friday said that Chairman of the separatist Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was free to travel wherever he wanted, including China. Mirwaiz is
expected to visit China and Pakistan later this month. His proposed visit to China
comes at a time of diplomatic skirmishes between New Delhi and Beijing, especially
over China's insistence on issuing separate visas to citizens belonging to Jammu
and Kashmir. Krishna said there was nothing unusual in Mirwaiz's proposed visit
to China. "They are free to travel wherever they want. So, there is nothing unusual
in somebody going to China and somebody coming from China to India or somebody
going to Pakistan or coming from Pakistan to India. So, it does not make much
difference," Krishna said. Meanwhile, Union New and Renewable Energy Minister
Farooq Abdullah said that Mirwaiz's visit to China would provide him an opportunity
to see for himself how much progress China has made and what militancy has done
to Jammu and Kashmir. "I am happy that Mirwaiz is visiting China. He will come
to see China's development and will also come to know how much destruction we
have done (in Jammu and Kashmir) in the last 20 years," Abdullah said. According
to reports, Mirwaiz is visiting China as a guest of an NGO and is expected to
deliver a lecture there. |
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