Pak-India talks fizzle out, claims MJC

09 Sep, 2004

Muttahida Jehad Council (MJC) Chairman Syed Salahuddin has declared Pak-India foreign ministers-level talks as completely unsuccessful and disappointing, adding: "The people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Mujahideen were not expecting any results from Pak-India talks that could lead to finding the Kashmir solution", said a MJC statement issued here on Wednesday.
The MJC chief claimed that 56 years history shows that India always played tactics, and bought time to keep its repression and brutalities against innocent masses of occupied Kashmir, adding: "India aims at holding negotiations is not to solve Kashmir dispute, but raise other issues like Wullar Barrage, Siachen, Baghliar Dam, etc.
Syed Salahuddin, who is also a supreme commander of largest Kashmiris Mujahideen organisation, Hizbul Mujahideen, observed that India had started negotiations with Pakistan in the wake of international pressure to give an impression to the world community that it (India) wants to settle all dispute through peaceful means.
"Another purpose of these negotiations is to provide cover to brutalities which Indian forces were committing in occupied Kashmir", he said.
The MJC chief accused that India staged talks drama to hide its gross human rights violations in occupied Kashmir and remained successful in its designs.
Salahuddin said India also used confidence building measures (CBM) taken by Pakistan for achievement of its (India) nefarious designs and fenced LoC by taking the advantage of unilateral cease-fire along Line of Control, and obtained Pakistan's silent agreement on it (LoC fencing).
"India also attempted to give an impression of exchange of various delegations that the division of sub-continent was not factual", he added.
Salahuddin went on saying that there was no mention of Kashmir during last eight-month negotiations between India and Pakistan and India has been stressing the need for restoring bilateral relations, adding it was being expected that Kashmir would get a formal mention during the ministerial-level talks, but how Kashmir was removed from the talks agenda which can be estimated that India was not ready to hold talks on Kashmir by any reference.
"India's attitude has been tested time and again, and now wisdom for Pakistan lies in avoiding India's tactics", he suggested.

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