New Delhi: Acknowledging that militancy in Jammu and Kashmir has not achieved anything other than creating “more graves,” moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has suggested giving up the armed struggle to find a solution to the vexed issue.
"The dialogue process to resolve the Kashmir issue should be given a chance as efforts through military means have not achieved any results except creating more graveyards,” said Mirwaiz, who is heading a three-member Hurriyat delegation.
With the new strategy, Hurriyat would convince India to arrive at a more agreeable settlement, Mirwaiz said at a dinner hosted by POK Prime Minister Attique Khan on Friday. The delegation earlier had a meeting with President Pervez Musharraf.
Observing that peaceful negotiations were the only way out, he criticised the hardline Hurriyat faction, led by Sayed Ali Geelani, which is opposed to the dialogue process.
"Some people involved in the struggle could still have some reservations, but as far as the APHC was concerned "we are not prepared to sacrifice any more of our loved ones", he said.
"We have already seen the results of our fight on the political, diplomatic and military fronts which have not achieved anything other than creating more graveyards," he was also quoted by local daily Dawn as saying on Saturday.
The Pakistani President had during last night's meeting with the Hurriyat delegation said that "elements" hostile to the peace process, who attempted to create misunderstandings on Pakistan's stand should be "strongly countered and rejected.”
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