NEW DELHI: The Center’s talks with a section of the Kashmir militants appear to have unnerved Pakistan outfits in the Valley. Within three days of the talks, the leader of one of these out fits Mr. Shabir Ahmed Siddiqui of the Amanullah Khan faction of the JKLF was in the Capital to claim that the talks would ve nothing. The Hurriyat has already scoffed at the talks, calling the militants who attended them ‘middle rung leaders.” Addressing news conference, Mr Siddiqui said: “Such talks are not a solution. We are also in favor of talks, bat they should be purposeful, Al have been accords between the Center and Kashmir leaders and they have not helped the situation at all.” “Purposeful” talks, in his were what Mr, Amanullah ‘said in the Nast that the Kashmir state be ‘united,” put under UN supervision for three to five years, and after that the people be given the chance to decide, without any ‘outside influence.’ whether they want Kashmir to be an independent country or a party of Pakistan or India.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 20, 1996
