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| Why talk with those who say 'Pak zindabad', Muslim clerics ask Rajnath | | | Agencies
NEW DELHI, Sept 6: Members of an all-party delegation that went to Kashmir shouldn't have tried to meet Hurriyat members and those who raise slogans like 'Pakistan Zindabad,' said a delegation of Muslim clerics who met Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday
The clerics' delegation met with Rajnath to discuss the situation in Kashmir.
"Some people who went with the home minister to Kashmir went to meet separatists, they should not have done that. Why talk to Hurriyat people, people who raise 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans" asked the clerics.
On Sunday, Kashmiri separatists shut the door on members of the all-party delegation, literally, in some instances, as they went to meet them as part of efforts to end the two-month-long unrest in the Valley following Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani's killing. Sources said the separatists had reservations talking to the team as Rajnath Singh was leading it.
After the snub, on Monday, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh expressed his displeasure at the separatists.
"I want to clarify that some members of the (all-party) delegation had gone to meet members of the Hurriyat in their individual capacity. The separatists did not say yes and they did not say no. The way they treated the members of the delegation can in no way be portrayed as Kashmiriyat, insaniyat (humanity) or democratic (jamhooriyat)," Rajnath said at a news conference in Srinagar on Monday.
Further, on Tuesday, sources told today that the Centre is considering curtailing perks like foreign trips, security and medical treatment, among other things, for the separatists, in what's being seen as hardening of the government's stance against militants.
On Sunday, Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani, under house arrest since July, refused to meet Sitaram Yechury, D Raja, Sharad Yadav and Jay Prakash Narayan when they went to his residence. Part of the Union home minister Rajnath Singh-led all-party delegation , the MPs had broken off to make the outreach.
J&K Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik rebuffed the parliamentarians as well when they went to meet him at a police station, where he is under detention. He told them that he would talk to them when he visits Delhi. "You see the situation outside. What can we talk about in such a situation?" Malik was quoted as saying. Former moderate Hurriyat Conference chief Abdul Ghani Bhat welcomed the MPs but told them a decision had been taken to boycott them. Bhat called the visit a "futile exercise", saying nothing concrete would happen unless India talked to Pakistan. |
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