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Early Times Report (Behind the veil)
Jammu,November 6:-Senior leaders belonging to the camp of moderates continue to be perturbed over the growing influence of Syed Ali Shah Geelani,who heads the camp of hardliners,by way of his success in ensuring peoples' response to his calender on agitation,shutdown and protest rallies.Well when the turmoil took roots in the Kashmir valley following the death of one youth in police firing on June 11 the moderates among the separatists too lent their support to the call for shutdown and protest rallies given by Geelani.
As time ticked by Geelani took the centre stage after his writs started running like waves in the valley.Groups of people,especially the youth, responded to his call for shutdown and protest rallies without caring for their comforts and life.The moment moderates in the separatist camp saw that they could be relegated to complete oblivion if they tried to oppose Geelani's calender on agitation they left it in the hands of their chairrman,Molvi Umar Farooq,to take any decision.And rightly the Maulana opted for playing a second fiddle to Geelani.Sensing that Geelani had started emerging as a leader of great stature the moderates suggested to him(Geelani) to forge unity in order to give teeth to the ongoing turmoil.Geelani,however,did not respond because he has,by now,realised that he had succeeded in sidelining the moderates.
A senior leader of the moderate All Party Hurriyat Conference agreed that "events had forced us to play a second fiddle to Geelani Sahib."Asked how long will they have to follow Geelani he said "nothing can be said right now.we are simply watching the situation because the scenario that exists in Kashmir right now leaves no scope for us to defy Geelani's calender or go against his programme."
The Hurriyat leader also agreed that for number of years the moderates had assumed a significant role as representatives of "peoples' aspirations" but durig the last five months "we seem to have lost that stature,if not the relevance."The Hurriyat leader seems to be right because at one stage,former Pakistan President,Gen.Parvez Musharraf,too had treated the All Party Hurriyat Conference,led by Molvi Umar Farooq,as the representative body of the people of Kashmir.
Not only this.Leaders belonging to the camp of moderate separatists would be on the top of the list of the invitees by the Pakistan high commission in New Delhi.These very leaders had been invited by Pakistan and they were in Islamabad and some of them in Muzaffarabad on more than two occasions during the last six years.Against this Geelani remained confined to the valley.A stage had reached when the distance between Islamabad and Geelani had widened to such an extent that Geelani had refused to attend a party hosted by the Pakistan high commission in Delhi.His grouse was that leaders belonging to the camp of moderate separatists were being given prefrential treatment by Islamabad despite the fact that these moderates were for Azadi and not for Kashmir's merger with Pakistan.
Even Delhi had opened channels of dialogue with he moderates in the separatist camp between 2003 and 2006 indicating that the Government of India thought it prudent to rope in the moderates for solving the int ernal dimensions of the Kashmir issue.It is something different if Delhi has not been as enthusiastic about reopening of the channels of dialogue with the moderates as it was between 2003 and 2005.And the moderates have not yet given up.They await a situation in which people start defying Geelani's calls for shutdown.Once that happened the moderates would resurface with a bang.Till then they may have to lie low.And th circumstances seem to have thinned the line that divided the hardliners from the moderates.Before the rise of the turmoilin Kashmir in June last the line dividing the moderates from the hardliners used toite thick(eom)
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