Hurriyat man pulls out of dialogue saying Delhi didn’t deliver

Haq’s deputy and veteran separatist leader, Mohammad Musadiq Adil, told a local news agency that a meeting presided over by Haq made this decision. ‘‘On the ground, nothing has changed. In fact, human rights violations are continuing. Today also an innocent youth was killed in Narbal. The talks tantamount to fraud from the Indian side,’’ sources quoted a PPF leader as having said.

This comes the day another constituent, the People’s Conference, saw the late Abdul Ghani Lone’s sons fighting so bitterly that one brother Bilal Lone stayed in the Hurriyat and expelling the other Sajjad Lone from the party. Sajjad had earlier walked out accusing Hurriyat leader Abdul Ghani Bhat of trying to break his party. Trying to downplay Qureshi’s decision, Shahidul Islam, the No 2 to Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in the Awami Action Committee said pressure was mounting on the Hurriyat top brass to ‘‘take a firm decision if the situation did not change on ground.’’

When contacted, Hurriyat chief Mualana Abbas Ansari said all members were ‘‘monitoring the situation and will take a decision accordingly.’’ Meanwhile, government released one of its detained senior executives, Sheikh Mohammad Aziz from a Jammu jail. Aziz was detained for nearly two years. Sources said pressure is mounting within Hurriyat especially after five civilian porters were killed allegedly by Army. In fact, this had even prompted Dy PM L K Advani to tell security forces recently to be more sensitive to human rights in the Valley.