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| Stalled dialogue: APHC invites PM’s attention | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Apr 24
To invite attention of the Prime Minister towards a stalled dialogue, the moderate faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference will be holding a silent protest demonstration in Srinagar tomorrow.
This apparently the first time, when separatists will be organizing a public show to lodge their protest. In fact, moderate separatists have begun going on the offensive after they felt dismayed over the prolonged silence of the centre over the issue of resumption of dialogue between the Prime Minister and the APHC. This is indicated by the way the APHC has plans of holding silent protest march on April 25 when Dr Manmohan Singh is scheduled to reach Jammu on his two-day visit.
Though the APHC activists and their leaders are unlikely to be allowed to march to the UN Military Observers Group headquarters in Srinagar on Friday the separatists plan to create a situation which could get cognizance in various world for a.
When two senior APHC leaders, Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat and Shabir Ahmed Shah, were asked whether they hoped the Prime Minister will opt for resumption of the dialogue with the Hurriyat leaders the former said “nothing can be said” and the latter stated that “it is premature to comment on it till the Prime Minister completed his two-day visit to Jammu”.
Reports indicated that the Hurriyat leaders have been waiting for an invitation from the Government of India for talks for all these years and when they found that the possibility of the resumption of the dialogue with the Prime Minister was bleak they have gone on the offensive.
The APHC leaders possibly believe that their defensive postures had not only failed to yield results but had enabled the hardliners to train their guns against the moderates.One senior Hurriyat leader said “we were being blamed for being Indian agents whenever we expressed our willingness and prepardness for holding talks with the Government of India.” He said “we are still ready to respond to any invitation for talks from the Government of India and we hope that nothing short of dialogue could settle the Kashmir issue.” He said that “ we cannot wait endlessly.We have to chalk out our programme for raising peoples’problems and hold protest rallies against continued excesses being commited by the security forces.”
Another separatist leader said “there can be no escape from persuing the channels of dialogue.It has to be trilateral and we do not mind that if we were involved in the parleys when the ongoing bilateral talks between Delhi and Islamabad reached a decisive stage.” |
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