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| Jamaat Chief advocates settlement of Kashmir issue through trilateral talks | | | Srinagar, August 12
The recently elected Amir of Jamait-e-Islami,Sheikh Ghulam Hassan,has announced his party's total dissociation with any form of violence. Even while announcing that Jamait-e-Islami had no link with militants and opposed violence he has advocated the need for resolving the Kashmir issue either through trilateral talks or by allowing the people of Jammu and Kashmir their right,as provided in the UN resolution,for self-determination for settling the dispute.
In his first interview,after being elected as Amir,to a Srinagar based newspaper"Chattan",Sheikh Ghulam Hassan has said that Jamait-e-Islami was for peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue.He said "it was possible if India,Pakistan and representatives of
people Kashmir remained engaged in a sustained and meaningful dialogue." Sheikh Hassan said that the only alternative to trilateral parelys was giving people of Kashmir their right to decide the issue through self-determination.He made it clear that "violence was no solution to the problem",adding that"jamait-e-Islami has neither supported any form of violence nor had it favoured militancy."
In reply to a question he said that since militancy,in the inception,was a public movement Jamaat activists too had supported it individually because "our organisation had not lent any overt or covert assistance to militants."He said that in the beginning even mainstream political leaders and activists had supported militancy.
Referring to Syed Ali Shah Geelani,who alongwith
three of his associates stand suspended from
Jamait-e-Islami and 14 of his supporters expelled from the organisation,Sheikh Ghulam Hassan said that the recently reconstituted Majlis Shoura,apex body of the Jamaat,will decide whether the action taken by "my organisation" against Mr Geelani was to be upheld or revoked.He,however,made it clear that Mr Geelani had violated the Jamaat constitution by floating Tehrik Hurriyat conference.
The Amir stated that as per the party constitution a
Jamaat leader or member could neither lead or be a
member of any other organisation.
In reply to another question he said that
Jamait-e-Islami favoured establishment of rule of
Sharia.He said that though "we are not satisfied with
the rule of the establishment,we have avoided taking
up cudgels with the establishment because we believe
that politics is not separate from religion."
He made it clear that Jamait-e-Islami believed in
resolving any problem through peaceful means and
negotiations and hence it would be wrong if "our
organisation was blamed for lending any support to
militancy.
Informed sources said that the way Jamaat Chief opposed violence it indicated his concern over elimination of a large number of party activists by the security forces during the last 17 years.In fact Jamait-e-Islami leadership has been trying to increase its network in the state but the killing of its activists by the security forces had not only created problem in its mission but also forced the Jamaat leadership to oppose the support being given to the ongoing armed struggle by Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
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