Srinagar: Reacting to the recent statement of the Defense Minister that the talks with the separatists shall be held under the ambit of Indian constituency, the senior Huriyat Conference (M) leader Aga Syed Hassan has stated that conditional talks would not yield the desired results and that New Delhi is not serious in resolving the Kashmir crises.
Aga told Kashmir Magazine that the offer for holding conditional dialogue is in itself vindictive of New Delhi’s ‘non-seriousness’ vis-à-vis the Kashmir resolution and that the same is nothing but a time consuming exercise.”Holding dialogue under the ambit of Indian constitution- in my opinion is nothing but a clear surrender. The bilateral talks going on from the last 63 years between India and Pakistan have failed to yield the results. Out stand is clear that Kashmir can either be resolved through the implementation of UN resolutions or through the tri-partite dialogue. “
He however remarked that if at any time, it becomes a compulsion that bilateral talks be held, then the conditions are that India must accept Kashmir’s disputed nature, accept Pakistan as a party to dispute , AFSPA be revoked, all detainees be released, the curbs being imposed on Pro-freedom camp must be lifted.
Maintaining that the elections in the state are being presented with the different picture before the international community, Aga stated that under the ambit of Indian constitution, no election can affect the veracity of the ‘Kashmir Dispute’. “We consider the elections in Kashmir a non-issue but still the propaganda being devised in India about the polls being held in Kashmir must be halted at an earliest. Anjuman-e-Sharie Shian will be the part of every strategy being devised by the Huriyat Conference (M) over the issue.”