Srinagar, Dec 02: Continuing his efforts to unite the separatist camp ahead of proposed talks with the Centre, Democratic Freedom Party president Shabir Ahmad Shah today said all leaders should talk with one voice as hopes have been raised about a solution to the Kashmir issue. "Hurriyat is divided and there is chaos all around. We need to unite under one banner and speak with one voice at this crucial and historic juncture," Shah said after an hour-long meeting with former Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq.
He said the latest developments in bilateral relations between India and Pakistan had raised hopes of a possible solution to the Kashmir issue.
The two countries have been making steady improvement in bilateral ties, Shah said adding now it is the turn of Kashmiri leaders to play their role in resolution of the issue.
Shah said he had been in constant touch with leaders of both factions of the Hurriyat in his endeavour to unite all leaders and so far the response was encouraging. In an apparent reference to Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Jamaat-e-Islami and People's League, Shah said some important members claim to be neutral to the Hurriyat split. "I don't get this. Everybody has to be clear in their stand."
However, he said "my efforts should not be construed as an attempt to rejoin the Hurriyat. I have neither supported Syed Ali Shah Geelani nor Maulana Mohammad Abbas Ansari."

Shah, however, said he would not hesitate to get back into the conglomerate if his suggestions for its reorganisation and reshaping were implemented. He was expelled from Hurriyat Conference in 1995 during chairmanship of Geelani, after he met US ambassador to India Frank Wisner against the dictum of the amalgam.
On the roadmap proposed by the Ansari faction, he said no proposal is practicable unless it has the approval of the three regions of the state.
"The house has to be united on something as major as the resolution of Kashmir issue. No party or a group of parties can take the decision on their own without taking other parties into confidence," Shah added. Bureau Report