India will allow leaders of Kashmir's main separatist political alliance to visit Pakistan for talks on the disputed region's future, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview published on Tuesday. Pakistan has issued an invitation to the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of about two dozen political groups, to visit on June 2, according to Reuters. India has previously been reluctant to let Hurriyat leaders, some of whom are seeking independence for Kashmir and others a merger with Pakistan, to travel to Pakistan. "Now we have a breakthrough. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has allowed them to travel to Pakistan," Musharraf told the Daily Times. "So once they talk to us and they also talk to the Indian government, which we will try to facilitate, we shall have a trilateral arrangement going." Hurriyat leaders said on Monday they had yet to receive an official invitation from Pakistan. Musharraf met Hurriyat leaders last month when he made his first visit to New Delhi since a disastrous summit in 2001 and urged unity. He held talks with Singh and afterwards described the peace process as irreversible.
