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The breakaway faction of the Hurriyat Conference led by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani suffered a major set-back when Jamaat declared it would work towards forging unity among constituents of the amalgam.
Jamaat’s Majlis-e-Shoura (advisory council) met here last evening and set up a three-member committee under its political bureau chief Mohammad Ashraf Sahari to hold talks with other groups regarding the unity in the Hurriyat, Jamaat sources said today. The Jamaat’s decision came at a time when Geelani was expecting support for his faction from the parent organisation and is seen as a rebuff for his hasty decision to accept chairmanship of the breakaway faction.
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JAMMU: The family of Chief of Army Staff General N.C. Vij has been shifted from the ancestral house here to the Army cantonment following disclosure by an arrested Lashker-e-Toiba militant that the premise was in the hit list of a suicide attack by the militant outfit, official sources said on Sunday. Sajad alias Abu Haneef, who was arrested recently from Mendhar area of Poonch district, said Vij’s house was in the ‘‘hit list’’ of the Lashker which had assigned him along with an associate, slained in an encounter later, to carryout a suicide attack on Vij’s ancestral house in the old city, the sources said. (PTI) |
Sources said Geelani had agreed to wait and allow Jamaat to take a decision on his assumption of office of chairman of breakaway group.
‘‘We had requested him (Geelani) to take up the issue to Majlis Shoura and then take a decision accordingly on the issue. However, Geelani did not wait and became the chairman without taking Jamaat into confidence,’’ sources in the Jamaat added. Meanwhile, former Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq said his efforts to forge unity within the amalgam have not died and he was optimistic about his efforts yielding good results within a week.
‘‘I am sure within two to four days my efforts would yield results,’’ he said. ‘‘I have a list of nearly 28 political groups whom I want to assemble to sort out the differences,’’ he told reporters.
Mirwaiz conceded that the rift in the separatist camp has deeply hurt and angered the people and that they were desperately looking for a patch up. Downplaying the differences within Hurriyat, Mirwaiz said differences among the separatist groups were ‘‘superficial’’.
