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| Blast at Hurriyat office in Srinagar |
| 2007-02-01 |
| New Delhi: Militants on Wednesday night hurled a grenade inside the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) office in the Rajbagh area in Srinagar. This is the second attack by militants targetting the moderate faction of separatist outfit Hurriyat Conference in the past three weeks. Sources said there was no causality or much damage to property and none of the top Hurriyat leaders was present in the office when the blast occurred. The grenade attack comes in the wake of threats from militant outfits for the statement that Hurriyat Conference chief Mirwaiz Umer Farooq made during his recent visit to Pakistan, saying that separatist violence in Jammu and Kashmir had failed to achieve anything. Mirwaiz and his senior party colleagues Abdul Ghani Bhatta and Bilal Lone, who had accompanied him Pakistan, are expected to return to Srinagar on Thursday. In the second week of January, militants had hurled a grenade near the Mirwaiz's residence in Nijeen Chowk, though it did not cause any damage. |
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| Kashmiris decry UN failure to resolve conflict | |||
| 2006-01-07 | |||
ISLAMABAD - The main separatist alliance in Indian-administered Kashmir at a meeting in Pakistan on Friday expressed disappointment with the United Nations for its failure to resolve the Kashmiri conflict. âWe have to be realistic and try to explore as many options as possible for resolution of the issue,â All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq told a press conference in Islamabad.
Mirwaiz fully supported Pakistanâs proposals for
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| Hardliners are irrelevant: APHC |
| 2005-06-06 |
| The exclusion of Syed Ali Shah Geelani and jihadi outfits from the ongoing peace process would not have any adverse effects on it, the visiting All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) delegation observed on Sunday. Maulana Abbas Ansari and Bilal Ghani Lone told Daily Times the "individuals" who did not wish to support the peace process should come out of their belief that their absence would obstruct the process. Another APHC leader Abdul Ghani Bhatt supported their point of view but said it would be better if jihadi outfits were also involved in the dialogue process. "There are two types of people in our society — the people who represent the brighter side of a picture and the people who represent the darker side," Bhatt added. He said there had always been a conflict of interests among forces acting in different directions. "But remember, only those who go with the growing current of history and understand the dynamics of change, reach their destination. And those who don't, perish," he observed. Bhatt said the APHC leaders would meet the Indian leadership and brief it about their visit to Islamabad. He hoped that their visit would strengthen the ongoing peace process. Asked if Syed Ali Geelani had the support of the majority of people in held Kashmir, he said that Geelani did not represent all segments of Kashmiri society. He dismissed the impression that Kashmiris would not accept any solution to the dispute if Geelani and Syed Salahuddin, chairman of United Jihad Council, were not involved in the dialogue process. "Both of them do not enjoy the support of the Kashmiri people. They are not popular leaders, so their absence from the process will not create any problems," he said. He admitted that an armed Kashmiri freedom struggle, started in 1988, had brought the Kashmir dispute into the limelight and forced the international community to try to help find a solution to the dispute. Lone said everyone involved in the freedom struggle played a role. "We cannot say that one or two individuals played a role. Or only because of the armed struggle the issue was highlighted at international forums," he added. Asked to comment on a split in the Hurriyat, he said: "The APHC is a forum of political parties and they might have differences with one another. And it happens everywhere in the world." |
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