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Afghanistan/South Asia
Kashmir rebel groups reject call for truce
2005-08-14
SRINAGAR — Two Muslim militant groups in Indian Kashmir have rejected a call by the region’s top woman politician for a truce, saying their “jihad” would continue until the Indians kill them the region was wrested from India.

The Himalayan region’s top woman politician appealed to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday to help bring peace to the revolt-hit region by persuading Islamic militants to declare a ceasefire. “Encourage them to announce a ceasefire,” Mehbooba Mufti urged Musharraf. “People in Kashmir want peace, not violence.”

But the region’s most powerful group, Hizbul Mujahideen, said it would not agree to any ceasefire in the 16-year-old insurgency against New Delhi’s rule. “The jihad will continue until Kashmir is liberated from India,” Hizbul’s spokesman and Kashmir-based field commander Junaid-ul-Islam was quoted by a local news agency as saying late on Friday.
"A truce would be un-Islamic!"
Posted by:Steve White

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