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Hizb ready for talks, but won't disarm
Hizbul Mujahedin, held Kashmir's largest Islamic militant group, said on Thursday that it was not 'scared' of talks with New Delhi, but insisted that there should be no conditions, such as disarming. Hizbul Mujahideen's statement came as the region's top separatist politician, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, said he would visit Belfast next month to study the Irish Good Friday peace deal to determine if it could help resolve the Kashmir issue. "Hizbul Mujahedin was never scared of talks in the past nor is it against the process today," group spokesman Junaidul Islam told a local news agency. He however said that if Indian leaders 'were sincere, they should not have put preconditions before the talks'. Posted by: Fred 2006-08-18 |
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