Separatist leaders from Indian Kashmir met Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday and said afterwards they were assured Islamabad would do its best to bring them into the peace process with India, Reuters reported. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of the moderate faction in Kashmir's All Parties Hurriyat Conference, said Aziz supported the Kashmiri people's "just struggle for the right of self-determination". "We are assured that the government of Pakistan is doing its utmost, its best, to see to it as to how the leadership of the people of Jammu and Kashmir would be a part of this ongoing process," Farooq, one of nine separatist leaders visiting Pakistan, said to Reuters after meeting Aziz. The delegation is expected to hold talks with President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday. Musharraf said their visit had "very great political significance". India and Pakistan began a peace process in early 2004, but the most tangible sign of progress so far has been the start of a bus service across the ceasefire line to help reunite Kashmiri families separated for more than half a century. --More 2349 Local Time 2049 GMT
