Do not talk with Delhi, Farooq tells separatists
Lok Sabha member and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah has advised separatists not to engage in talks with the Centre, saying they will get nothing.
“They did not give us autonomy which is guaranteed by the Constitution, what will they give you?” the elder Abdullah told the separatists in an interview with the widely read Greater Kashmir daily.
The National Conference President also said that the central government was not sincere while speaking of a dialogue with the separatists.
“It is simply a fill-in-theblanks exercise. There is pressure on India from the world that Kashmir must be normalised.
“It is a trap. Don’t fall into it. Talk only when India comes up with a concrete proposal,” Farooq Abdullah said in his message to the separatists.
“Don’t talk for the sake of talks. I don’t think they [BJP] are ready to give you anything. They are not sincere in their intentions. They want to drag them to the table only to discredit them,” he cautioned the separatists, some of those top leaders are either in jail or are confined to their homes in Srinagar.
‘Categorical stand’
Kashmiri separatist leaders including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malek have said that New Delhi must identify the contours of the dialogue process so that a categorical stand can be taken by the separatists on the offer.