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Kashmir
interlocutors deny proposing pre-1953 status
Sunday April 24, 2011 06:42:48 PM,
IANS
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Jammu:
Distancing themselves from reports that they were proposing
reversing the clock to the pre-1953 semi-sovereign days, the three
interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir said Sunday they had prepared
no such draft "on these lines".
"All we can say is that we have not prepared any draft as yet nor
there is one ready to be submitted in the near future on these
lines," said Dileep Padgaonkar, leader of the three-member team,
at a press conference here Sunday. Till 1953, the state had
control over all affairs barring defence, communications and
external affairs.
The three interlocutors were briefing the media about their
seventh visit to Jammu and Kashmir, during which they met a
cross-section of people in the Kashmir Valley, as also in the Doda
and Kishtwar districts in Jammu region and also held a meeting
with the Jammu Bar Association.
The highlight of their visit was a meeting with separatist leader
Moulvi Abbas Ansari in Srinagar on Wednesday for which he has been
expelled from the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference for
"violating" the Hurriyat stand of not talking to the
interlocutors. But Ansari hailed his expulsion from the Hurriyat
as an unshackling experience for him.
As the interlocutors started briefing the media about their
just-concluded visit, they were grilled for having made their
recommendations public even before submitting them to the central
government.
"We have not made any recommendations nor is there any particular
recommendation in our mind unless we speak to all the people. Our
report would be comprehensive and containing all major
viewpoints," Padgaonkar said.
The two other interlocutors Radha Kumar and M.M. Ansari nodded in
agreement.
The interlocutors would be submitting their interim report next
month, according to sources close to them.
The central government appointed the interlocutors in the wake of
street protests in Kashmir and police action in which more than
100 protestors were killed in the summer of 2010. The
interlocutors were tasked with suggesting ways of bringing about
sustained peace in the state.
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