| KASHMIR SENTINEL
August 16-September
15, 2000
PIPU condemns massacre KS Correspondent
safeguard its citizens and the centre's unimaginative and weak approach pursued for more than five decades vis-a-vis J&K. The leaders expressed that the BJP-led coalition in Delhi had shown neither any grit nor any departure from the thinking of its predecessors and that whatever was happening was a reflection of a confused mindset prevailing in Delhi that had blunted the edge of political and military initiatives to counter the ISI game plan in Kashmir. The leaders of PIPU alleged that another dangerous aspect of these new developments of roping in Hizbul Mujahideen for facilitating the so-called dialogue on Kashmir was full of pot holes as it exposed the vulnerable minorities to attacks by more than 18 other groups active in J&K.The leaders strongly condemned the centre's lack of transparencyin the whole affair and said that any secret parleys with the forces waging `Jehad', at the cost of secular and nationalistsections of society, are only likely to boomerang with wider ramifications for the entire nation. The PIPU leaders also reiterated their resolve that they would not allow the interests of the people of Jammu and Ladakh, the Kashmiri Pandits and all others, who were opposed to the ideology of separatism, to be made hostage to centre's expediency in reaching some compromise with the separatists. They said that at a critical juncture, when the final phase of minority cleansing in the state was going on unabated, as was borne out by the massacres of yesterday, they would demand that the GOI should make public the content and context of its secret parleys with the Americans as well as Jamaat-i-Islami through the track-2 channels on Kashmir.12-point charter of demands submitted by Hizbul Mujahideen
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