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| Bickerings within the united jehad council come to the fore | | |
Srinagar, February 28
Bickering with in the Muzaffarabad based United Jehad Council have now come to the fore following
Jamaitul Mijahideen's announcement that the four-point
proposal of Pakistan President,Gen. Parvez
Musharraf,on Kashmir was not acceptable to it.
The Jamaitul Mujahideen's statement was released
within hours of an announcement by Chairman of the
United Jehad Council,Syed Salahuddin,in which he
expressed his support to Gen.Musharraf's proposal
saying that it could be a viable solution to the
Kashmir issue.
Mr Salahuddin had issued the statement as Chief of
the Jehad Council and the way one of its
constituents,Jamaitul Mujahideen,said that Gen.
Musharraf's proposal was not acceptable to it
indicated that dissensions have surfaced in the
amalgam of 13 militant outfits.
Not only this, Mr Salahuddin's statement has
received a mixed reaction in the state.While Syed Ali
Shah Geelani,considered to be the political patron of
Salahuddin,said that those who favoured any other
solution other than the right of self-determination
were for the status quo in the situation.He reiterated
his emphasis on a plebiscite which,to him,could lead
to a suitable solution to the Kashmir issue.Against
this the APHC leadership has supported Syed
Salahuddin's stand on Gen. Musharraf's four-point
proposal on Kashmir.
Mr Bilal Ghani Lone,a senior leader of APHC said
that his organisation favoured Syed Salahuddin's
stand.The Awami Action Committee,headed by Molvi Umar
Farooq,also has come out in support of Salahuddin's
latest statement on Musharraf's
proposal.However,Democratic Freedom Party Chief,Mr
Shabir Ahmed Shah preferred to remain silent on the
issue.
In fact Mr Salahuddin's recent statement on
Musharraf's four-point proposal has evidently brought
the united Jehad Council in direct conflict with Mr
Geelani.Hitherto Mr Geelani had the backing of the
Jehad Council,especially Hizbul Mujahideen.Observers
here are of the view that the conflict between
Salahuddin and Mr Geelani may hasten further isolation
of the latter when he had already won the displeasure
of Islamabad which had ordered closure of the
headquarters of Tehrik Hurriyat Conference in
Pakistan.
No doubt Pakistan Prime Minister,Mr Shaukat Aziz,has
invited Mr Geelani to visit Pakistan,for which the
invitation letter was delivered to him by Pakistan
Foreign Minister,Mr Khurshid M Kasuri,during his
recent visit to Delhi.Mr Geelani had met Mr Kasuri but
had left the meeting in a huff when he found Pakistan
unwilling to support his demand for a plebiscite in
Kashmir.
it is yet to be seen whether the moderates among
the separatists,led by the APHC,succeed in wooing Mr
Salahuddin or by another U-turn he(Salahuddin) is back
in Geelani's fold |
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