{"id":6535,"date":"2016-10-25T18:21:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T12:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=6535"},"modified":"2016-10-25T18:21:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T12:51:33","slug":"five-member-delegation-meets-separatist-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=6535","title":{"rendered":"Five member delegation meets Separatist leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

BJP distances itself from delegation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Srinagar:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>A five-member delegation led by former external affairs minister, Yashwant Sinha Tuesday<\/span> called on Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani at his residence in Hyderpora locality in Srinagar.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 The delegation drove to the octogenarian leader\u2019s house where he is placed under house detention.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Geelani had earlier refused to meet parliamentarians who were part of an all-party delegation to Kashmir.<\/em><\/p>\n

Former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha, who led a five-member delegation to Geelani\u2019s residence in Srinagar on Wednesday, said that talks with the Hurriyat (G) leader were held in a cordial atmosphere.<\/em><\/p>\n

After landing in Srinagar, the delegation straightaway drove to the octogenarian leader\u2019s house where he is placed under house arrest.<\/em><\/p>\n

After holding talks for over an hour, Sinha told journalists outside the Geelani\u2019s residence: \u201cWe had come here with the aim of holding talks. The talks were held in cordial atmosphere.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The delegation also called on Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and senior separatist leader Professor Abdul Gani Bhat as well. Mirwaiz was released from jail on Monday<\/span> night.<\/em><\/p>\n

He remains under house arrest at his Nigeen residence.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Besides Yaswant Sinha the other members of the delegation are Wajahat Habibullah, the former chairman of National Commission for Minorities, Kapil Kak, former Air Vice-Marshal, journalist Bharat Bhushan and Sushoba Barve of Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All Parties Hurriyat Conference, while issuing a statement to press said that a high level delegation headed by former External Affairs Minister Mr. Yashwant Sinha dropped at the residence cum office of its chairman Syed Ali Geelani today at about 11:30 am<\/span>. Delegation included Rtd. Air Vice Marchal Mr. Kapil Kak, Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, Senior Journalist Mr. Bharat Booshan and Executive Director of the Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation Mrs. Shashooba Barway.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Hurriyat said that conversation took place in a cordial atmosphere, wherein Geelani Sahab reminded them the historical perspective of the Kashmir issue, pending for its final resolution since 1947.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Hurriyat said that people have rendered huge sacrifices for settlement of this long standing dispute. Referring to the present uprising, delegation was told that for the last 107 days 94 people have been killed with 15,000 people injured and an equal number, especially youth are arrested. About 100 people are arrested daily and draconian laws like PSA are slapped on them and they are shifted to jails outside valley. It was conveyed to the delegation, with all the updated data, which arrested people include old as well as juvenile.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Commenting on the prevailing situation it was said that onus of peace in the region particularly in Jammu and Kashmir lies with those holding power, military might and other resources. It was further said that along with people resistance activists and leaders have been put behind bars and Geelani Sahab himself is under house arrest for last 6 years. All the people and leaders should be released and the cases against them should be withdrawn so that after consultation a common and collective point of view can be put forward.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile Right wing Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) distanced itself from the meeting between Kashmiri resistance leader Syed Ali Geelani and a delegation led by its leader Yashwant Sinha, saying the party has \u201cnothing to do with it\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u201cIt is not a BJP delegation. BJP has nothing to do with this,\u201d its National Secretary Shrikant Sharma told reporters in Indian capital New Delhi.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cSome media outlets have said that it is a BJP delegation which is absolutely wrong,\u201d Sharma said, adding Sinha too maintained that he took up the enterprise in his personal capacity. (CNS)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BJP distances itself from delegation Srinagar:\u00a0A five-member delegation led by former external affairs minister, Yashwant Sinha Tuesday called on Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani at his residence in Hyderpora locality in Srinagar. \u00a0 The delegation drove to the octogenarian leader\u2019s house where he is placed under house detention. \u00a0\u00a0 Geelani had earlier refused to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}