The Hindu : Ansari is Hurriyat chief

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Sunday, Jul 13, 2003

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Ansari is Hurriyat chief

By Our Staff Reporter

Jammu July 12. The All-Party Hurriyat Conference today appointed the Shia leader, Moulvi Abbas Ansari, as its new chairman for two years.

Representatives of six parties of the seven-member executive council took part in an unscheduled meeting at the APHC's Rajbagh headquarters. Abdul Ghani Bhat, former chairman and Muslim Conference leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq (Awami Action Committee), Bilal Ghani Lone (People's Conference), Moulvi Abbas Ansari (Ittehadul Muslimeen), Ghulam Rasool Dar Eidi (Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front) and Shabir Tota (People's League) attended the meeting while the Jamaat-e-Islami, a constituent of the APHC, was not represented.

After the meeting, Prof. Bhat said, "the appointment of the new chairman was through a consensus and there were no differences on this point."

He said, "the main task is to unite all the separatists under a common umbrella and give a new shape to the separatist movement. The need at present is to remain united and be true to the sentiments of the people we lead.

" The Jamaat's Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who along with the JKLF chief, Yasin Malik, stayed away said: "We were invited by the Hurriyat Conference for the meeting but we made it known that we would not participate till the time action is taken against the People's Conference. I congratulate the new chairman and wish him the best of luck."

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