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"It
is a half-broken step. What'll we talk about?"
Abdul Ghani Bhat, Chairman, Hurriyat Conference
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Hasn't the Hizbul move put the Hurriyat on the negotiating table?
A.
There's no agenda. What are we going to talk about? We have said what
we want: no dialogue with preconditions or without Pakistan.
Q.
Initially Hurriyat dubbed the cease-fire hasty but later hailed
it.
A.
The issue was not ceasefire but the substantive aspect of negotiations
that Delhi offered without making any reference to its oft-repeated
statement that the dialogue has to be within the Constitution. We
appreciated this ... But it is a half-broken step. So many innocent
Amarnath yatris, workers, soldiers have fallen to bullets in spite
of this ceasefire.
Q.
What has the cease-fire done?
A.
One, it has established that it is an indigenous movement, not exported
from Pakistan. Second, Hizbul has sent out a message that the boys
aren't terrorists but freedom fighters who want to settle.
-Ramesh
Vinayak
For
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India's
national animal is in crisis in the hands of its keepers. The death
toll at Nandan Kanan Zoo in Orissa is now 12, nine of these rare
white tigers.
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India
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joins the WTO, says Sudeep Chakravarti in
"It
is a frustration that India and Pakistan have not grown up enough to pull
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