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SRINAGAR: The recent visit of the All Party Delegation has raised hopes for the return of peace in Kashmir. Notwithstanding the fact that the delegation could not meet a cross section of people in view of the strict curfew imposed in the Valley that day, the visit is still being seen here as a window of opportunity to kick-start a fresh initiative. The fact that the delegation members reached out to break the ice with separatists like Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Farooq and Yasin Malik is seen as a positive, given that the political spectrum of India has remained aloof from the Kashmir scene for the past 20 years. It was in March 1990 when an all-party delegation had last visited Kashmir. This was under the leadership of the Late Rajiv Gandhi, then in the opposition. The feeling on the ground is that so far New Delhi has only used the security and strategic approach to address the problems, with political intervention at the all-party level remaining elusive. This, many believe, has left the government with a narrow understanding limited to security and strategic concerns. At the time when Kashmir is passing through its worst ever crisis, the government on the ground is absent. This fact was acknowledged by many members of the delegation who have met Home Minister P. Chidambaram during the past two days, giving a hope that something tangible will move to put this cycle of violence and unrest at an end. As political scientist Gull Mohammad Wani put it, it was a good beginning that “political leadership across the party lines reached out to people in Kashmir, giving them a sense that they were a concern”. “They need to pick up from where they left off. Reviving of CBMs is important, but before that, initiation of dialogue in Kashmir is a must,” he emphasized.
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