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| India-Pakistan |
| ˜Third Front' comes up in JK |
| 2002-06-21 |
| A conglomerate of several separatist leaders, including some from Hurriyat Conference, militant cadres, political and social outfits has taken shape in Jammu and Kashmir with an aim to solve the Kashmir problem through a series of steps including participation in the assembly elections. Those are the elections the gunnies were saying they'd kill people for voting in... The conglomerate has been named a 'third front'. Headed by moderate separatist leader of Sopore G.M. Naikoo, it has emerged after several meetings of moderate separatist leaders over the last four years and is scheduled to go public soon. The front wants prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to announce a political package for Kashmir before taking up a multiple and step by step methodology to solve the J and K problem and in this direction, members of the front have already held meetings with some central government emissaries, and named former union law minister Ram Jethmalani as one of them, saying the meetings took place with him in Chandigarh, Jammu, Delhi and Srinagar recently. This is the time for a "peace front" to come forward. Just hope the gunnies are low enough on ammunition for something to come of it. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |