Srinagar, Apr 02: Hurriyat Conference today made fresh calls for a dialogue to resolve the Kashmir issue and accused the Centre of following a hardline policy on the subject. "It is in the interest of the people of India, Pakistan and Kashmir that a meaningful, result-oriented and fruitful dialogue be initiated to resolve Kashmir issue," a spokesman of 25-party separatist amalgam said after an executive meeting of its seven-member executive council here. He alleged that hardline policy was adopted at the recent meeting convened by Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani at New Delhi on the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir and said "hardline policies failed to deliver in the past nor will it prove fruitful in future. We have been facing hardline policy for a long time". Criticising the state government, the spokesman claimed the special operations group of local police continues to function in the state notwithstanding the claims about its disbanding by the mufti-led coalition government. All the seven executive members - Hurriyat Chairman Abdul Gani Bhat, Mirwaiz Moulvi Umer Farooq, Mohammad Yaseen Malik, Moulana Abbass Ansari, Khalil Mohammad Khalil, Bilal Gani Lone and Sheikh Ali Mohammad - were present at the meeting, he added.

Bureau Report