Centre not serious about dialogue: Geelani

Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani said the government was using interlocutors as a delaying tactic.

Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Thursday alleged the Central government was not serious in resolving the Kashmir issue and was using the process of interlocution as a delaying tactic.

“The government is not serious about dialogue. It is using the process of interlocution as a delaying tactic,” the chairman of the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference said here.

“Despite promises to release political prisoners and protesters,arrests continue unabated in the state,” he said in a statement here.

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Notwithstanding assurances from Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and appeals from three Central interlocutors to release political detainees,more leaders were being arrested under the PSA,the separatist leader said.

A person can be detained up to two years without trial under the PSA.

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