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Hurriyat constituent not to take part in talks

By Shujaat Bukhari

SRINAGAR FEB. 18. The dialogue process between the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference and the Central Government has received a severe jolt with one of its participants, People's Political Front (PPF), deciding not to take part in the next round next month.

The decision not to take part in the talks was taken at the party's executive committee meeting in which the issue of "increasing human rights violations was discussed threadbare," a PPF spokesman said here in a statement.

There had been no change in the ground situation despite the Government assurances, it added.

The meeting was chaired by Fazal Haque Qureshi, party chairman.

Mr. Qureshi participated in the first round of talks held between the Abbas-led Hurriyat Conference and the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, in New Delhi.

The other participants in the dialogue process were the four Hurriyat executive council members — Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat, Bilal Gani Lone, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and the Hurriyat chairman, Moulvi Abbas Ansari.

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