New Delhi: A major London-based Kashmiri separatist group has defended the participation of people in the Lok Sabha polls saying this would decide on the future course of composite dialogue between India and Pakistan.

Jammu and Kashmir Council for Human Rights, a party in the International Kashmir Alliance, in a statement said these elections had "a new and added significance because its results would decide the future course of a composite dialogue between India and Pakistan and between people of Jammu and Kashmir and the Centre.

"Participation in an election to elect representatives to conduct the public trust is an important process to protect the full regime of Human Rights and advance people's grievance," it said.

The Group said it was important that the people of the State use the "institutional spaces available in Parliaments of India and Pakistan and animate themselves alongside the forthcoming composite dialogue between the countries."

Criticising those who had given a poll-boycott call, the organisation said such calls were a result of the non-use of the freedom of wisdom.

"A boycott call during the present Lok Sabha polls is not only against the democratic character but it accompanies some other dangers too," it said and added that "Valley-based politicians have a very limited reach and their anti-poll campaign may not even make a dent in many streets and villages within the Valley."