Interlocutors report a waste of time: JK separatists

Kashmiri separatist groups have rejected the report of three member panel of interlocutors, dubbing it as 'divisive and unrealistic'.

The separatist leadership says that 'its stand in not meeting the interlocutors has been vindicated by the report'.

Chairman of the moderate All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq rejected the report saying 'it is wastage of time'.

"The report has tried to divide the state into fragments and to give the problem various colours," Mirwaiz told rediff.com.

He said that 'lifting of AFSPA and other such laws are not the solution to the problem but were part of the CBM's towards a solution," Mirwaiz said.

Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani out rightly rejected the report saying, "The stand taken by us not to meet the interlocutors has been vindicated."

"It a time gaining tactics of the government of India aimed at hoodwinking the people of Kashmir and the international community," Geelani said, adding, "India must fulfil its promises and implement the UN resolutions allowing the people of Jammu and Kashmir their right to self determination."

Pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front leader Yasin Malik said that the report was intended 'to fracture the state on communal lines'.

"The report has not given any consideration to aspirations of Kashmiris and our refusal to meet the penal has been the right decision," Malik said.

He described the report as 'an intellectual exercise in bankruptcy and shorn of historical background'

The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, however, said that 'this report has some positive elements, some patches of hope and lots of things that may not have much impact'.

"We are glad that some of the main features of self-rule proposal are reflected in the report. But what is needed in fact is action and follow up," Naeem Akhtar, spokesman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, said.

"Lot of literature has been generated on conflict resolution around Kashmir, but it is woefully low on action which is necessary to remove the trust deficit."

The panel of three interlocutors was appointed by the central government at the height of 2010 civilian unrest, which claimed 112 lines, left hundreds others wounded while several thousand were arrested.