Srinagar, Oct 22: Breakaway Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani today said his group did not have much hopes from the talks between Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and separatist leader Mohd Abbas Ansari on the Kashmir issue as they would be held in the backdrop of the 1994 Parliament resolution on Kashmir. "Advani had made it clear that whenever the Centre will hold talks with the Kashmiri separatists, the talks would be held in the light of 1994 resolution adopted by the Indian Parliament declaring Kashmir as its integral part. We do not have much hopes from them," Geelani said in his reaction to Centre's decision authorising Advani to hold talks with Ansari.

He said he did not attach much importance to the talks as they would be held in the light of the recent statement of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Panipat that the people of J&K had acceded to India and that the issue pending solution related to one-third of the state illegally occupied by Pakistan. However, he said the Hurriyat believes in resolution of Kashmir issue through meaningful and result-oriented dialogue.

Bureau Report