New Delhi: As Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit meets separatist leaders from Kashmir just ahead of the Foreign Secretary level talks between the two countries, hers is a look on previous such incidents.
April 2014: Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit on April 2 met J&K separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik, and Shabir Shah at the embassy in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi
November 2013: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's advisor on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz held discussions on Kashmir-related political developments with four delegations of Kashmiri secessionist leaders at the Pakistani High Commission.
July 2012: On July 3, 2012, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani met eight Kashmiri separatists, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, at the Pakistan High Commission.
July 2011: Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar Khar met the delegations led by hardliner separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and moderate Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq at the Pakistan High Commission on July 26.
March 2010: Three top separatists - leaders of the two Hurriyat factions Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani and JKLF chief Yaseen Malik attended the Pakistan Day function at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi,
April 2007: Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz met a five-member delegation of the moderate faction of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and a two-member delegation of the Democratic Freedom Party led by its chief Shabir Shah at the Pakistan House in New Delhi.
April 2005: Separatist leaders, including All-Parties Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Yasin Malik and Abdul Ghani Bhat met President Pervez Musharraf in New Delhi.
October 2004: Pakistani foreign minister Khursheed Kasuri and foreign secretary Riaz Khokhar privately met Kashmiri separatist leaders during their New Delhi visit.
(Source: News Reports)
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