Srinagar, Oct 29: Pro-Pakistan militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen today termed as "heart-warming" the promises of would-be Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to wind up Special Operations Group (SOG) and not to implement Pota but insisted that these would not help resolve the basic problem.
Sayeed is "being projected as a well wisher and sympathiser of Kashmiris and that his ascent to power would bring some relief to the people through non-implementation of Pota and winding up of SOG," Hizb's operational commander Saiful Islam said in a statement faxed to local Nafa news agency.
"Though these steps seem to be heart-warming, these do not constitute the solution to the basic problem," he said.

Islam said the solution to the Kashmir problem was in implementation of the UN resolutions or tripartite talks between India, Pakistan and Kashmiris. "Otherwise this government would suffer the same fate as that of Farooq Abdullah government," he said.
Islam, however, expressed doubts over Sayeed's will to fulfil his promises, saying "he has not started a struggle for the end of Pota and release of political prisoners. People of the state are well-versed with his deeds since the time he was union home minister when innocent killings were a common thing." Bureau Report