Hurriyat blames Centre for Indo-Pak impasse

The moderate Hurriyat Conference blamed New Delhi on Friday for the Indo-Pak impasse, saying the Centre had never been sincere and always used the dialogue process to buy time and complicate issues.

“New Delhi has always embarked on a mission to delay things. It has always adopted a negative line to delay things. Unless sincere efforts are made by New Delhi to engage Pakistan and the pro-freedom leadership in the Valley with the Kashmir issue on agenda, no Indo-Pak dialogue will be successful,” chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said.

He also rejected foreign minister SM Krishna’s claim that
Kashmir was India’s internal matter.

“Kashmir is an internationally accepted issue pending resolution. Kashmiris and Pakistan are two important parties to this dispute,” he said.

The Hurriyat chairman, who has been put under house arrest for the past three days, appealed to Pakistan to use diplomatic channels and pressure India to stop killings and human rights violations in Kashmir. “Pakistan, being an important party to the dispute, should take strong note of rights abuses in Kashmir and mobilise all resources to pressure India to stop violations in Kashmir,” he said.