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| Hardliners ask moderates not to 'betray' Kashmiris | | Umar Farooq fails to have working groups | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI|JAN 29
The much-publicised, and much-debated, three-member delegation of moderate faction of Kashmir's Hurriyat Conference is back in India at the end of a 10-day visit to Pakistan. Even as many in Pakistan and in Indian Kashmir agreed with the Hurriyat delegation's emphasis on the continuance of the ongoing peace process, Maulvi Umar Farooq, who head the moderate team, failed to make any headway in his proposed formation of working groups on either side of the Line of Control (LoC).
The meeting that was held in Islamabad on the eve of the Hurriyat leaders' return to India, left none in doubt about the the divided opinion on the proposal favouring setting up of working groups in two Kashmirs. If some parties opposed the Maulvi's move, others favoured a wait-and-watch policy. Another development which set the Musharraf camp and moderate Hurriyat leaders thinking anew, related to the boycott of the meeting by the haredline Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakstan Peoples Party (PPP) of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) headed by Sultan Mehmood. Maulvi Farooq had announced t... | |
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| Migrants' return to Valley out of question: Pandita | | Food for Kashmiri Pandits' thought | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI | JAN 29
The return of uprooted Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley "is out of question", KN Pandita has pronounced. While ruling out his co-religionists' return to Muslim Valley, Pandita, who has been in the thick of Kashmiri Pandit community's "struggle with destiny" for a long time, has placed himself on record, saying: "For the first ime in a thousand years, we (Kashmiri Pandits) have breathed the air of freedom outside the mountain-curtained Valley of Kashmir".
In his latest write-up carried by 'Paannyaar', an 8-page publication of news and views of Kashmiri Pandits in Noida (UP), KN Pandita's observation on the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) from the Vall... | |
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