[Geo TV] An all-party delegation led by Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram arrived in Srinagar on a two-day visit to assess the ground situation in Kashmir Valley amid continued tension across the Indian held territory.In Indian Kashmir, the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani and other pro-movement leaders have refused to meet the visiting Indian all-party delegation in protest against the killing of innocent Kashmiri youth.
"We got nuttin' to say to dem guyz!"
The APHC Chairman in press release said that assault on the life and dignity of the Kashmiri people had been relentless and daily life in the homes and streets of the territory had been turned into a nightmare as the entire population was being treated as hostage on its own soil.
He wrote that just a simple act of stepping out of house
| My goodness, there are an awful lot of emotion-laden modifiers there. One wonders if the gentleman took an undergraduate degree in advertising or creative writing. |
The APHC Chairman said that India had failed to fulfill the promises made by its rulers of resolving the Kashmir dispute through dialogue adding that New Delhi was responding to Kashmiris' peaceful struggle with bullets and violence. He maintained that it was the high time to develop a peace processor on Kashmir as lingering of the dispute would result into more loss of human lives.
He said that the APHC, with a view to generating a conducive atmosphere for a purposeful dialogue, had put forth suggestions like revocation of draconian laws, release of political prisoners, withdrawal of troops and zero tolerance against human rights but these proposals were not taken seriously by India.
He pointed out that New Delhi offered dialogue only when a major crisis erupted in Jammu and Kashmir and as soon as the situation improved it restored inherent political complacency and negligence. He proposed that Pakistain and India should set up Kashmir committees to develop and enter into a process of engagement with Kashmiri leadership to bring about a just solution of the dispute.
Some members of the 42-member delegation are likely to call on Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani at his Hyderpora residence here. Though Geelani has officially refused to meet them, he said the delegation members will not be turned away if they decide to call on him at his house as they were guests.
The
freedom fightershave given mixed signals to the visit of the delegation. While the moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference headed by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and JKLF led by Mohammad Yasin Malik has said that they will hold joint consultations to decide whether to meet the delegation, the hardline faction led by Geelani has decided to boycott it. The delegation hopes that the leaders of various freedom movement groups will finally come for the talks.