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Hurriyat blames India for stalling NSA-level talks

Mirwaiz said New Delhi was not serious about dialogue and they wanted to put Kashmir off the table which is not acceptable.

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Hurriyat Conference, which was the main bone of contention for India and Pakistan, squarely blamed New Delhi for stalling the NSA-level talks, saying the sidelining of Kashmir issue will not be acceptable at any cost.

"Unfortunately, India put unnecessary conditions for the talks with an intention to stall them in the tracks. In Ufa, it was decided that all issues will be discussed. What was the big deal if Kashmir was also discussed," Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of moderate Hurriyat Conference, told dna.

Mirwaiz said New Delhi was not serious about dialogue and they wanted to put Kashmir off the table which is not acceptable.

"Kashmir is a core issue and we are the primary party and stakeholders to it. New Delhi and Islamabad may have other issues as well. But when it comes to Kashmir, there can be no movement forward unless its primary parties are involved," he said.

Moderate Hurriyat chief, who was supposed to lead a delegation to meet Aziz, said New Delhi has gone back from the stand taken by the NDA-1 led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

"During Vajpayee era it was decided that Hurriyat would talk to both New Delhi and Islamabad. But the new NDA government has revoked it which is very unfortunate," he said.

Earlier in the day the centre had tightened noose around separatists and detained two senior leaders at the Delhi airport in a bid to prevent them from joining the reception of visting Pakistani NSA Sartaj Aziz.

Senior separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah and moderate Hurriyat Conference executive council member Bilal Gani Lone were detained soon after they landed at the Delhi airport and later placed under house arrest.

Shah along with his aide Mohammad Abdullah Tari and Zamir Ahmad were supposed to join the reception of Aziz in Pakistani high commission office on Sunday evening.

Lone was supposed to join the delegation of moderate Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in Delhi on Sunday before going to the Pakistani high commission in the evening.

"I had told Mirwaiz sahab that I will join the delegation in Delhi on Sunday. When I arrived in Delhi this evening, a police posse took me into custody and put me under house arrest," Lone told dna.

Zamir Ahmad, the spokesman of Shah led Democratic Freedom Party, told dna that they have been placed under house arrest in the guest house in South Extension Delhi.

"When we were disembarking from the plane we were taken into custody and placed under house arrest in the guest house which we had booked for the stay," said Ahmad.

The Mufti Mohammad Sayeed-led Jammu and Kashmir government too had chipped in to ask separatists to listen to their conscience whether they want to become a bridge or spoiler for the talks between the two NSAs.

"Leadership should ask themselves whether they should facilitate or unfacilitate dialogue," Waheed-ur-Rehman Para, political analyst to J&K chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, told dna.

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