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| Mirwaiz declares ‘Emergency’ in Hurriyat, offloads top office bearers, shuts panels | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Nov 23: Smelling a revolt by some colleagues in the Executive Council and several defiant constituents in the General Council, Chairman of the secessionist amalgam, Hurriyat Conference (Mirwaiz faction), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has dismissed top office-bearers and also dissolved all committees of the alliance amid speculations of his visit to Pakistan and joining a dialogue process, separately with New Delhi and Islamabad, for the purpose of seeking a solution to the 60-year-long Kashmir problem. Fearing an in-house tension, Hurriyat has meanwhile deferred Mirwaiz-led delegation’s visit to Pakistan.
With a number of Hurriyat (M) leaders speaking hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s language of “only solution through implementation of the UN resolutions or tripartite talks” and several constituents of the General Council holding “secret meetings”, Mirwaiz today took a day-long meeting of the decision making Executive Council at the alliance headquarters at Rajbagh. All the eight constituents of the Executive Council participated in the meeting and they were represented by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq (Awami Action Committee), Professor Abdul Gani Bhat (Muslim Conference), Bilal Gani Lone (Peoples Conference Bilal faction), Shabir Ahmed Shah (Democratic Freedom Party), Aga Syed Hassan Al-Moosavi (Anjuman-e-Sharie Shia’an), Masroor Abbas Ansari (Ittihadul Muslimeen) and Mukhtar Ahmed Waza (Peoples League Sheikh Aziz faction).
Sources present in the meeting revealed to Early Times that the participants expressed serious concern over dissenting voices emerging within the separatist fold. There was consensus over the fact conflicting policy statements “at a very crucial stage” would only create the picture of a “house in disorder” that could lead to a dangerously confusing situation. Feeling the need of a major overhaul in the structure, Executive Council authorized the Hurriyat Chairman to dismiss all the office-bearers, excluding himself, as also to dissolve all the four committees and sub committees.
Those, subsequently, removed from the top positions included Provincial President Kashmir (Nayeem Khan), Spokesperson (Prof Abdul Gani Bhat), Media Advisor (Syed Saleem Geelani) and Chief Administrator at the headquarters (Shabir Ahmed Dar). Sources said that with the mandate of the Executive Council, Mirwaiz dismissed all other office-bearers and also dissolved all the committees, including the Human Rights panel. He would continue to function as Chairman of the conglomerate, reconstitute the bodies and appoint new office-bearers “in due course of time”.
Sources said that in accordance to the consensual decision taken in the meeting, Chairman imposed blanket ban on issuing any kind of statements to the Press or public by anybody in the Hurriyat and its constituents. Executive Council member Shabir Ahmed Shah and General Council member Nayeem Ahmed Khan had, of late, issued statements and made speeches that sounded in conflict to those made by Mirwaiz. Few others in the alliance had publicly dismissed Mirwaiz Umar’s receptivity to New Delhi’s offer of dialogue with the Kashmiri leadership and a refrain on “quiet diplomacy”. They had unambiguously rejected any kind of bilateral talks and asserted that any dialogue process in absence of Pakistan’s participation and involvement would end up into a meaningless exercise. Using Mr Geelani’s language, they had claimed that Kashmir’s solution lay in nothing but implementation of the UN resolutions, asking the state subjects to vote either in favour of accession to Pakistan or to India.
According to these sources, Mirwaiz has immediately deferred his visit to both Pakistan and China. “There is no such possibility in at least next two weeks”, said a well-placed source in the Hurriyat |
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