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Setback for Geelani

Srinagar Sept. 21. The breakaway faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference led by the Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, suffered a major setback when the Jamaat declared that it would work towards forging unity among the constituents of the amalgam.

The Jamaat's Majlis-e-Shoura (advisory council) met here on Saturday and set up a three-member committee under its political bureau chief, Mohammad Ashraf Sahari, to hold unity talks, Jamaat sources said today. The decision came at a time when Mr. Geelani was anticipating support for his faction from the parent organisation and is seen as a rebuff to his hasty decision to accept chairmanship of the breakaway faction.

The sources said that Mr. Geelani on his own had agreed to wait and allow the Jamaat to take a decision on his assumption of office of chairman of the breakaway group.

``We had requested him (Mr. Geelani) to take up the issue to the advisory council and then take a decision accordingly on the issue. However, he did not wait and became the chairman without taking the Jamaat into confidence.'' — PTI

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