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Jammu, June 11: Visibly hurt over New Delhi’s dilly-dallying tactics of keep all in Jammu and Kashmir in good homour, the Peoples Democratic Party has warned the Prime Minister and the Congress leadership about failure of peace process if troops were not pulled out.
An angered Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said that the confidence building measures taken over past few years may go waste if New Delhi delayed the decision on reduction of troops and revocations of laws like Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Undermining the leadership and Kashmir-concerns of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Congress leadership, the Mufti went offensive while crediting the former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee for initiating the peace process from people’s doorsteps –he said this while referring to Vajpayee’s April 2003, Kashmir visit.
Sources said that the PDP leadership is deeply perturbed over the attitude of the New Delhi on the two important issues raised by the party. The party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is believed to have conveyed his feelings to the Prime Minister and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil that various central leaders are creating confusing with their statements on demilitarisation.
“Our party has deeply regretted the statements of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and often repeated statements of Defence Minister AK Antony ruling out troop reduction, particularly when the Prime Minister himself has constituted three committees to look into this issue”, said senior PDP leader revealing contents of message dashed off to New Delhi. He said, “they (New Delhi) are undermining importance of public sentiments”. “This can be disastrous”, he added.
Meanwhile, addressing a party meeting in Srinagar this morning Mufti Sayeed while welcoming the Prime Minister's positive remarks on Indo-Pak relations at Berlin, Sayeed said the paradigm of Indo-Pak friendship would, however, be incomplete without a space of dignity and opportunity for the people of Jammu & Kashmir. "The peace process, for obvious reasons, would never make any progress as a stand-alone proposition between India and Pakistan bypassing Kashmir," he said and added that the country's leadership must, without giving in to the hawkish positioning of various quarters, pick up elements of sanity and consensus from wherever they are and strike a new benchmark by addressing the genuine and just concerns of the people of Jammu & Kashmir. This, he said would be the fundamental input for transforming the situation.
Reiterating that reduction of troops and revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) are now inevitable measures, Sayeed made it clear that any overt or covert move to stall this process is fraught with foreseeable dangers. "The people of Jammu & Kashmir have to be freed from the vicious grip of violence to generate an atmosphere conducive for the success of the peace process," he said and added that instead of trying to freeze the problem of Kashmir in a time-frame, imaginative and progressive measures, in line with the political, historical and cultural contours of the State, have to be initiated to give the people a fresh hope for peace, progress and stability.
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