Hurriyat chairman Mirwiaz Umar Farooq on Friday set a six-point confidence building measures (CMBS) as a pre condition before initiating any dialogue process to resolve the Kashmir issue.
“Release of political prisoners, revocation of the Disturbed Area Act, demilitarization, stopping human rights abuses, allowing leadership to move freely to other part of Kashmir are CBMs that will create conducive atmosphere for talks in Kashmir,” the Mirwaiz said at a Friday congregation at Jamia Masjid. “Before the talks the New Delhi should express sincerity through solid steps which will make a good ground for talks. We believe in talks but it should be sincere and meaningful for resolving Kashmir.”
He said no diplomacy whether quite diplomacy or open diplomacy will work till significant measures. “Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says one thing and his General Officer Commanding says completely different things. There is different language in different places used by India leadership. New Delhi need to create one language on the issue,” said the Mirwaiz.
Rejecting bilateralism on the Kashmir problem, the Mirwaiz proposed triangular dialogue. “Srinagar-New Delhi and Srinagar-Islamabad and Srinagar-Muzaffarabad dialogues are only way to resolve the issue,” said Farooq adding no bilateral dialogue has proved fruitful in the past on the Kashmir issue.
Terming erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir as one geographical unit, the Mirwaiz said: “We need to create a consensus among the leadership in Kashmir. It’s nobody’s personal war. Jammu people will be taken into confidence while resolving the issue.”
The Mirwaiz, however, hailed recent statements of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram saying “they were positive and encouraging.”
He stressed the need to create a consensus among local leadership here. “It’s not a personal war. There is need to create a consensus across separatist parties for a joint effort to resolve the Kashmir issue,” he added.
The Hurriyat chairman’s assertions of asking New Delhi to express sincerity through solid steps comes at a time when the moderate faction is trying to create a broad consensus among separatists groups for dialogue with centre. The Hurriyat has constituted a two member team headed by Fazal Haq which has been talking to all shades of separatists from past few days. On Thursday the two member team of moderate Hurriyat met the ‘pro-independent’ leader Yasin Malik, even though the meeting remained inconclusive.
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