news details |
|
|
| Rendered irrelevant, Geelani, Mirwaiz, Malik desperate for talks with GoI | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 3: Finding themselves marginalized and irrelevant, separatists are finding ways and means to take part in the dialogue process offered to them by the Union Home Minister last month.
Reports coming to fore reveal the separatists are desperate to stay in the limelight as the balloon of their integrity and credibility was punctured by the NIA raids, exposing them before the general masses at large.
Under such circumstances, the offer of talks being extended to them by the union home ministry has come to them as a blessing in disguise.
As the separatists in the first phase expressed reluctance in taking part in the dialogue process, it was later dawned upon them that taking part in the talks could well resurrect their careers. As per the reports, there are high chances that the separatists will now talk to the union government that too without any preconditions.
Reports inform that the separatists including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik have constituted a six member committee to evaluate opinion of common people on possible dialogue with Government of India. Reports said that shortly after Home Minister of India announced that they were ready for talks with Hurriyat, the separatists convened a meeting to discuss the development. There was consensus that a committee be constituted that could gain public opinion with regard to dialogue process. "There are six persons who have been made the members of the committee. They are Ghulam Nabi Zaki and Ghulam Nabi Nazar from Mirwaiz Group, Umar Adil Dar and Hakim Rashid from Geelani Group, Sheikh Abdul Rashid and Yaseen Bhat from Malik Group. Insiders are being quoted by the media reports that members of the committee have started meeting people to gain common public opinion about proposed dialogue process.
Pertinently, On May 29, all the separatist groups held a closed door meeting at the residence of 89-year-old separatist Syed Ali Geelani who demands Kashmir's merger with neighbouring Pakistan.
The separatists, soon after the meeting, made a joint statement, asking the Government of India to clarify about what it wants to talk about. The statement added that until there is any clearance from the federal government, the will not hold any dialogue.
"While Rajnath Singh says there should be dialogue with both Kashmir and Pakistan, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj puts a rider and says no talks with Pakistan unless terror is stopped. Let there be clarity about what India wants from the talks and it will find takers of its offer," read a statement issued by the amalgam.
However, there are now reports coming to fore that if the separatists want to stay relevant, they are finding it inevitable to become part of the dialogue process. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
