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Jammu,August 9 :-Will the Government of India accept Hizbul Mujahideen's offer for "conditional" dialogue with Delhi ?
The question has assumed importance following the latest announcement of Hizb Chief commander operations,Gazi Misabudin,in which he said that his outfit was willing to enter into a dialogue with the Government of India provided Army operations in Kashmir were stopped,those detained in jails were released and withdraw the troops to the barracks.
Official sources said on Wednesday "the Government of India is unlikely to accept conditional dialogue offer from Hizbul Mujahideen."
The sources said that since Hizb was not the only outfit calling shots in Kashmir the Government could hardly be goaded to accept the offer from Gazi Misabudin.They said that there were a number of rebel outfits operating in Jammu and Kashmir and on the top of them were Lashkar-i-Toiba,Jaish-e-Mohammad,Al Arfin,and several other groups.And during the last several years,the sources added,the strings of militancy were in the hands of foreign mercenaries.
The sources referred to a situation in 2000 when the then Chief commander operations,Abdul Majid Dar,had announed a unilateral ceasefire.The centre had sent a team of senior officials to have negotiations with Mr Dar but the ceasefire did not last beyond a week because Mr Dar had come under severe pressure from other volatite elements within the state and across the border.This had resulted in the split in Hizb that led to the elimination of Mr Dar.
According to a senior police officer "the Government's announcement on suspension of combat operations had encouraged militants to carve out their bases in various areas in the valley.He posed a question: "How can we accept conditional dialogue from Hizbul Mujahideen when the experiment carried out in 2000 proved unsuccessful and deterimental to antiinsurgency operations?"
The police officer said that the state Government and the centre had repeatedly indicated that they were ready for talks with even militants provided their guns fell silent.
The official sources said that the Government could explore the possibility of suspending all antiinsurgency operations provided militants announced a unilateral ceasefire.Once it happened the Government will have no hesitation in withdrawing troops to the barracks.
The sources alleged that soon after Hizbul Mujahideen field commanders besides its supremo Syed Salahuddin realised that the strings of militancy were in the hands of foreign mercenaries they had started evincing interest in assuming a political face by initiating a dialogue with the Government of India.
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