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| Geelani, Mirwaiz trash Omar’s monologue on dialogue | | Hurriyat dares CM to pass 6-point formula in J&K Assembly | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Nov 10: Both factions of Hurriyat Conference have pooh-poohed Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s PDP-brand refrain on New Delhi’s dialogue with the separatist leadership even as Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has dared him to pass his 6-point formula in J&K Legislative Assembly if head of the coalition government was really sincere in his recently made public utterances.
Hardline Hurriyat chief, Geelani has characteristically trashed union Home Minister P Chidambarm and J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s newfound refrain on “quiet diplomacy” and asserted that there was, as usual, neither sincerity nor seriousness in the ruling coalition’s statements. “It’s all an exercise in futility. Bilateral talks on Kashmir problem have invariably ended up in failure. Real solution lies in tripartite talks between India, Pakistan and the Kashmiris or implementation of the UN resolutions”, Geelani told local news agency, Kashmir News Service.
Geelani said that his faction of the Hurriyat Conference would respond positively and engage itself in a dialogue process if Government of India declared Kashmir as a disputed territory and sounded sincere in holding talks with the Kashmiri leadership. He asserted that Hurriyat would never participate in the talks which ran contrary to its constitution. “They are, in fact, misleading the world with such hollow utterances”, Geelani is reported to have said in reaction to the coalition leadership’s recent statements on “quiet diplomacy” and willingness to talk to all cross-sections of public opinion, including the separatist leadership.
Refusing to accept it as the Government’s obligation, Geelani said that an international passport had been issued to him first time after 1981 but it was all meaningless as, according to him, there was continuous Police siege around his house in Hyderpora and he was not being allowed to budge an inch outside the premises. He has, of late, approached J&K High Court, seeking “withdrawal of the Police siege”. A commissioner appointed by the court today made an inspection but did not found any Police presence. Geelani’s spokesman Ayaz Akbar claimed that Police had lifted the siege minutes before the commissioner’s arrival.
In his immediate reaction to the Chief Minister’s statement made at his news conference in Jammu on Monday, Mirwaiz too claimed that there was little sincerity and seriousness in the coalition leaders’ refrain of holding talks with the Kashmiri leadership. “If National Conference and PDP are really serious in their public utterances, which keep changing with every passing moment, they better pass Hurriyat’s 6-point formula in their Assembly”, Chairman of so-called moderate faction of the Hurriyat, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said. He, significantly, did not sound to be critical of “quiet diplomacy” and said that Hurriyat was not afraid of “any talks whether held publicly or secretly”.
Informed sources, meanwhile, revealed to Early Times that Mirwaiz had conveyed his “displeasure” to the UPA leadership in New Delhi over “derailing the dialogue process well before it has started”. He is understood to have taken umbrage over reports that claimed the Hurriyat chief had met Home Minister Chidambaram last month before his departure for London.
Reports from south Kashmir said that another prominent separatist leader, Shabir Shah, has asked NC and PDP leaders to step down and join the ranks of the separatist leadership if they were sincere in holding talks with “pro-freedom leaders”.
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