From: Habib Yousafzai <habibyousafzai@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:20 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] No need for new road map for Kashmir: Geelani
To: Bangla Vision <bangla-vision@yahoogroups.com>, Bangla Zindabad <Bangladesh-Zindabad@yahoogroups.com>, Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com>, Badrul Islam <badrul_islam2001@yahoo.com>
No need for new road map for Kashmir: Geelani Tribune News Service Srinagar, November 15 The hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, has sharply reacted to the views of interlocutors on a road map for resolving the Kashmir issue, which they said, would be made in nine months. "There is no need to make any new road map for the resolution of the Kashmir issue. In simple terms, the people of Kashmir want azadi," Geelani stated here today. He was reacting to the statement of the Centre's interlocutor, Prof Radha Kumar, who, along with another team member, MM Ansari, was talking to media persons here yesterday. If the Indian leadership was faced with any difficulty on this, they should read India's freedom struggle, Geelani pointed out. He said the road map for the resolution of the issue had been made long ago with the involvement of the world community and the "two neighbouring countries" of India and Pakistan. In this connection, he referred to the resolutions on the UN charter, which had been signed by the leaders of both India and Pakistan. Geelani held that the appointment of the interlocutors was "delaying tactics" and a way out to ease the "growing international pressure" on the Government of India to resolve the issue. Earlier, Geelani had here yesterday said he was ready for an "open discussion" on the five-month turmoil in the Kashmir valley, which had resulted in the loss of 115 lives since June 11. He also extended an open invitation to all those depicting only one-sided picture of the situation and expressed his readiness to discuss the issue in its historical perspective. Geelani's faction had been spearheading the agitation by issuing periodic protest calendars over the past few months. The current calendar between November 9 and 20 had only two days of strike ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, contrary to the previous calendars. It is being observed that the withdrawal of protests has been made in view of the growing public resentment against the continuing strikes, which have adversely affected all spheres of life.
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Palash Biswas
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