New Delhi, July 26: Attacking Pakistan`s Kashmir policy, the Hurriyat Conference said the situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir was worse than in Jammu and Kashmir. "The present government in PoK is worse than the Farooq Abdullah government," the Secretary-General of Hurriyat Conference`s Pakistan chapter, Altaf Qadiri, was quoted by Pakistani newspaper Daily Times as having told reporters.

Peeved over the failure of the Pakistani regime to highlight the Kashmir cause at the international fora, Qadiri, who is also a JKLF leader, said: "If Pakistan takes any wrong step on the Kashmir issue, it would be at the behest of the present government in PoK, especially Sardar Abdul Qayuum and Sardar Sikandar Hayyat Khan, as they are using the issue as a political tool."
Virtually negating the work of Qayuum, who was appointed by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as the chairman of the Kashmir Committee earlier this year, Qadiri said, "We want a revolutionary command council established in PoK, which should include people from both sides of the Line of Control, to replace the present government which is deceiving the people of Kashmir."

Qadiri was accompanied by two other Hurriyat Conference leaders, Ashraf Saraf of the Muslim Conference and Yousaf Naseem of the People`s Conference. Bureau Report