KARACHI: `I am going to Lake Success in connection with the Kashmir issue,` Mr Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani, Pakistan`s Ambassador-at-Large, told the APP in Karachi today ... [Nov 6] on the eve of his departure for a six-week tour of Europe and the Americas.

Asked if his visit to other world centres had anything to do with Kashmir, the Roving Ambassador said: `While I am in other countries, if they want to know anything about Kashmir and if they are interested in the problem, I shall try to explain our point of view to them.` Mr Gurmani continuing said: `I am going to strengthen the cause of peace.` ... [He] will visit Egypt, Britain, France, Belgium, the [US], Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Canada. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by the Times of India from Srinagar,] ... Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, the Kashmir Premier, addressing a public meeting at Mattan ... a place of pilgrimage for Hindus and the seat of learning for Hindus in ancient days, on Thursday [Nov 4] called upon the people to start a Sanskrit college there. This, he said, would revive the old Hindu culture which was an integral part of Kashmiri culture.