Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference on April 2 made fresh calls for a dialogue to resolve
the Kashmir issue and accused the Centre of following a hardline policy on the
subject.
"It is in the interest of the people of India, Pakistan and Kashmir that a
meaningful, result-oriented and fruitful dialogue be initiated to resolve Kashmir
issue," a spokesman of the 25-party separatist amalgam said after an executive
meeting of its seven-member executive council.
He alleged that hardline policy was adopted at the recent meeting convened by Deputy
Prime Minister L K Advani at New Delhi on the security situation in Jammu and
Kashmir and said, "Hardline policies failed to deliver in the past nor will it prove
fruitful in future. We have been facing hardline policy for a long time."
Criticising the state government, the spokesman claimed the special operations group
of local police continues to function in the state notwithstanding the claims about
its disbanding by the Mufti-led coalition government.
All the seven executive members – Hurriyat chairman Abdul Gani Bhat, Mirwaiz Moulvi
Umer Farooq, Mohammad Yaseen Malik, Moulana Abbas Ansari, Khalil Mohammad Khalil,
Bilal Gani Lone and Sheikh Ali Mohammad advocate – were present at the meeting, he
added.
PTI
