SRINAGAR, SEPT 12: In what is being seen as an attempt to prevent the Hizbul Mujahideen from initiating any peace process on its own, the Pakistan-based Jamaat-e-Islami is said to have taken control of the group and divested it of powers to take policy decisions.The Hizbul in Srinagar, however, promptly denied these reports saying that these were meant only to discredit the "movement" in Kashmir. But sources said that the Jamat has constituted a 12-member committee, headed by Qazi Hussain Ahmed, chief of its Pak wing. And its job would be to ensure that neither the Hizbul nor the Jamaat - on either side of the border - talk in conflicting voices.The committee will also include two members from the Jamaat based in the Kashmir Valley and the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).The meeting is said to have been convened by Qazi Ahmed to bring about a patch-up between the Hizbul Mujahideen factions headed by Supreme Commander Syed Salahudin and Chief Commander (operations) Abdul Majid Dar.Both Salahudin and Dar, according to the decision taken at the meeting, will continue in their present positions in the Hizbul, sources said and added that they have been asked to work together.Besides this, the meeting also brought about a patch-up, at least for now, between the Hizbul and the Kashmir-based Jamaat-e-Islami, which had denounced the former for "resorting to violence".
