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Hizb to wait for outcome
of Indo-Pak summit: Dar

The pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen's chief commander in Kashmir Abdul Majid Dar on Wednesday night said his outfit would wait for the outcome of the Indo-Pak summit before taking any decision on halting its operations in Jammu and Kashmir.

Dar said it was the collective decision of all commanders of the Hizb, including its Pakistan-based supreme commander Syed Salahuddin.

The summit meeting between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf had 'genuinely' raised hopes for a settlement of the Kashmir issue, Dar said.

"Even if the two leaders agree upon a strategy to chalk out a programme for the resolution of the Kashmir problem, it should be construed as a major success," he said.

But, if they failed the chances for any solution to the problem in the future would be bleak, he warned.

Reiterating the Hizb's stand that talks were the only way to resolve the issue, Dar said, "The seeds of the present peace efforts were in fact sown by the Hizb when it declared the unilateral ceasefire in July last year."

He said his outfit would take a decision about halting its operations against the security forces only after analysing the progress made at the summit.

PTI

Indo-Pak Summit 2001: The Complete Coverage

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