Kashmir is not a question of land or territory, it is a question of fundamental human rights. Now the Indians want the Line of Control to be turned into a permanent border. The shortest solution is the most honourable and the least bloody - let the Kashmiri people exercise their right of choice ...

... The Mujahideen, regardless of their ethnicity, have plenty of moral, legal and historical justification to challenge the usurper. It is a just war. The real problem is whenever India sits down for talks about Kashmir, their central motive is how to deny the Kashmiris their right of choice .... In bilateralism, at one end are the talks across the table, and, on the other, is a settlement in the battlefield.

Our choice is and will remain the former.

.. If India opts for a limited war and it results in a stalemate, the post-war scenario for India will be disastrous. It will blow the fragile Indian political integrity to smithereens ... If this bone of discord is removed both our countries and people can share the bounties of the region's opportunities unfolding by the day.

... All this hinges upon the right of choice of the Kashmiris. Get over this psychological barrier and we shall have an ideal security and economic system that the rest of the world will envy. (Source: The Week, 18 July, 1999)