The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has reiterated that it believes in a result-oriented dialogue, which presupposes that Kashmir be considered as a disputed territory.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC chairman Syed Ali Gilani in a media interview here said that the Hurriyat would always welcome a result-oriented dialogue.
Gilani maintained that so-called mainstream politicians were the Indian government's own people and had accepted the New Delhi's line. "We have a considered position that the mainstream politicians are not representatives of the Kashmiri people."
"We're fighting for right to self-determination while they're India's own people. We declare that the Hurriyat would never participate in any such dialogue, which includes so-called Kashmiri mainstream political groups," he elaborated. While quoting India's new external affairs minister Natwar Singh's statement that the Simla Agreement was the bedrock for the resolution of all outstanding issues with Pakistan, Syed Ali Gilani said, "let any responsible Indian official prove any kind of progress on the Kashmir issue ever since the Simla Agreement in the past 32 years."
"If they (India) want to revert back 32 years and address the Kashmir issue in the light of Simla Agreement, I ask, why not then go back to 1948 when India herself took the Kashmir dispute to UN"? Gilani said that the policy brief of the new Indian government also mentioned fulfilling the decades-old promises made to help the Palestinians for establishment of their own sovereign state.
"In this regard, I feel justified to remind the Indian govt that it had promised the Kashmiris, at national and international forums, to allow them to decide their own political fate," he emphasised.
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