Author: ANI
Publication: Rediff.com
Date: January 4, 2006
URL: http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/jan/04geelani.htm?q=tp&file=.htm
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, a Kashmiri separatist
leader and chairman of the Geelani faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference,
is likely to meet the chairman of the Muttahida Jihad Council Syed Salahuddin
in Saudi Arabia on the sidelines of performing Haj, next week, to discuss
the latest situation in the Kashmir Valley.
While Geelani is already in Saudi Arabia,
Salahuddin is likely to reach there in a couple of days.
"Salahuddin is likely to leave for Saudi
Arabia in a couple of days to perform Haj, where he will also meet Geelani,"
the Daily Times quoted sources as saying.
The unidentified sources further said that
although Salahuddin and Geelani had been in contact for a long time, they
were meeting after six years. "Both men will also discuss various options
and proposals including track-II diplomacy, the composite dialogue process
and the Hurriyat's reunification," they added.
Salahuddin would brief Geelani about his meetings
with Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, and former Jammu and Kashmir Liberation
Front chairman Yasin Malik, in 2005.
Meanwhile, a meeting of the MJC was held in
Muzaffarabad on Tuesday where the Kashmiri leaders on the Pakistani side of
LoC criticised the role of Jammu and Kashmir politicians, saying that their
participation in track-II diplomacy had directly or indirectly supported Indian
efforts to weaken the freedom struggle of the Kashmiris.
