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| Hurriyat to continue to strive for peace: MirwaiZ |
Thursday, February 01, 2007 03:41 [IST] PTI |
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New Delhi: Notwithstanding agrenade attack on its office in Srinagar, theHurriyat Conference today said it would continue to strive for bringing peaceto Jammu and Kashmir.
"Such attacks by vested interests only make our resolve more harder,"Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq told sources.
Without naming anyone, the Mirwaiz said last night's attack was the handiworkof elements who were against peace between Indiaand Pakistan.
His comments came a day after suspected militants hurled a grenade at theHurriyat office at Rajbagh locality in Srinagar,damaging some vehicles and smashing windowpanes in the building.
The Mirwaiz made it clear that the Hurriyat would not be cowed down by suchcowardly acts and the amalgam would continue to bring India and Pakistan closer.
"These attacks, which are aimed at scaring us, will do no good to the Kashmir issue," he said.
The attack came close on the heels of threats by various pro-Pakistan militantgroups, including the Hizbul Mujaheedin, following recent statements by theMirwaiz during his visit to Pakistan.He had then said the Kashmir issue would besolved through dialogue and not through violence.
The Jammu and Kashmirgovernment has again reviewed the security of Hurriyat leaders and taken allnecessary precautions to protect them.
Militants had earlier hurled a grenade at the residence of the Mirwaiz. Therewas no loss of life in that attack, which sparked off angry protests againstthe Jamat-e-Islami and hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
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