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| Shabbir Shah joins Hurriyat moderate faction | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | Jan 14
Moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq received a shot in the arm when the Democratic Freedom party President Shabbir Ahamad Shah joined the outfit on Monday.
"We are at a crucial stage of the freedom movement. We swim together, we sink together... Mirwaiz is our chairman," Shah said while announcing his joining the party at Eidgah martyrs' graveyard here.
Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq welcomed the move saying the "decision is a right one in right direction. His joining will not only benefit the Hurriyat conference but the freedom struggle as well".
He said the goal of separatist parties in Jammu and Kashmir was same and time had come for everybody to unite. "If we do not understand the realities of the situation, history will never forgive us."
Mirwaiz asked all separatists including Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and Jamaat-e-Islami, who were members of the executive committee before Hurriyat suffered a vertical split in 2003, to join back the parent party.
"There is no place for petty differences. This struggle is not for concessions, roads, economic packages or power... it is for the right to self determination," he said.
Shah also appealed to all separatist political parties, including the rival Hurriyat faction led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, to unite in one platform.
Earlier, several separatist leaders including People's League chairman Shiekh Abdul Aziz and Mahaz--e-Azadi chairman Azam Inqilabi had joined the moderate Hurriyat faction following Shah's call for a "united platform" last week. |
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