Hurriyat seeks one voice to talk peace

A process of how to go about the talks with Dy PM L.K. Advani and the agenda is being chalked out by the moderate face of the Hurriyat Confe...

A process of how to go about the talks with Dy PM L.K. Advani and the agenda is being chalked out by the moderate face of the Hurriyat Conference, which is looking forward to an invitation from New Delhi soon.

Sources say they would firm up their planning in the highest decision-making executive council meeting this week. The Hurriyat would also have wide-ranging talks with the general council and the working committee.

Hurriyat has also decided to hold parleys with groups outside the conglomerate like Yasin Malik’s JKLF, Shabir Shah’s Democratic Freedom Party and a ‘‘few neutral parties’’. What has however been made clear is that the conglomerate won’t talk to Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who heads the breakaway faction of Hurriyat.

Sources said the Hurriyat has drawn a rough plan as to who all will be included in the team to hold talks with Advani. Consensus is being elicited on three to five representatives in the team, two at least from the executive. Names of former Hurriyat chairman, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Abdul Gani Bhat have been cleared. They would be led by present chairman Ansari. The Hurriyat top brass is zeroing in on a senior separatist leader who had ‘‘done good work in the talks following the 2000 militant ceasefire announcement’’.

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