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Srinagar, August 19 :-In his willingness to enter into conditional dialogue with Delhi chairman United Jehad Council,Syed Salahuddin,is said to be trying to emulate Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine.
Syed Salahuddin had told a Srinagar based news agency in an interview, that he and his organization were prepared to play diplomatic and political role by starting dialogue with Delhi.He,however,had stated that India should not lay any condition adding that ceasefire,as demanded by Delhi,was not necessary for holding a dialogue.Talks could proceed even if there was no ceasefire from the Jehadi groups and this experiment had been tried with success in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Political observers here are of the opinion that Mr Salahuddin wishes to emulate Hamas and Hizbullah as leaders of these two organizations have taken part in elections and those belonging to Hamas continue to be members of the Palestinian parliament.
These observers say that had Syed Salahuddin been serious on holding a dialogue with Delhi he should not have imposed conditions which he had imposed imposed about three months ago,with Delhi not responding, when he had dropped broad hints on his plan of assuming a political role.They said that both the Defence Minister and the Union Home Minister had categorically announced that troops could not be withdrawn to the barracks till militancy related violence subsided.
After a gap of 16 years it is for the first time that Mr Salahuddin has realized that violence had resulted in sufferings and killings of people of Kashmir.He said,in his interview,”Hizbul Mujahideen would be more than happy to help the ongoing peace process.” “We understand when a bullet is fired either by an Indian soldier or by a militant,it is the Kashmiri who suffers.It is his house,school building which is razed to the ground.,he said.”
However, even after giving ex-pression to his distress Mr Salahuddin has told his interviewer “we understand
the agony and suffering of kashmiris but that does not mean that we will give up our right and give up the struggle.”
This indicates that the chairman of the Muzaffarabad based United Jehad Council is trying to ride two boats simultaneously,on one hand seeking participation in the dialogue process and on the other unwilling to suspend the ongoing Jehad.In fact Mr Salahuddin has come to believe, according to political observers, that at one stage or the other the ongoing India-Pakistan parleys and the talks between the Government of India and the APHC leaders may reach their logical conclusion and in that case he would get totally isolated. Hence his urge to assume political and diplomatic role is understandable to the extent that he would like to prove a leader who matters.
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