Hurriyat leaders to meet soon

NEW DELHI, JULY 1. A crucial meeting of the Hurriyat Conference's executive committee will be held later this week to discuss the formal stand of the 23-party conglomerate in the wake of it being denied audience with the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee and the Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, during the coming Indo-Pakistan summit.

Baffled at the reported decision of Pakistan not to allow the Hurriyat leaders to meet Gen. Musharraf here, the amalgam maintained that the two countries cannot afford to ignore Kashmiris and a final decision on the issue will be taken at its executive committee meeting this week.

``We are very closely watching the developments and will chalk out our future course of action in the forthcoming meeting of the executive committee,'' the Hurriyat spokesman, Mr. Abdul Majid Bandey told PTI.

`Centre insincere'

The Hurriyat Conference accused the Centre of not being sincere in resolving the Kashmir issue saying it was using all the resources at its command to ``suppress'' the voice of Kashmiris.

``New Delhi is not sincere in resolving the Kashmir issue peacefully, otherwise it will not have stepped up oppressive measures in the state,'' the Hurriyat said in a statement here.

It charged the Centre with propagating its desire to settle the issue just to mislead the international community, adding ``there is contradiction in the words and deeds of New Delhi''.

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