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Hurriyat says PoK is worse than J&K

Attacking Pakistan's Kashmir policy, the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference sought to embarrass the Pervez Musharraf government saying 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 Pakistani regime to highlight the Kashmir cause at international fora, Qadiri, who is also a Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front 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 the Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as the chairman of 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 more Hurriyat Conference leaders, Ashraf Saraf of the Muslim Conference and Yousaf Naseem of the People's Conference.

While the Muslim Conference is headed by the present Hurriyat chairman, Abdul Gani Bhat, in Jammu and Kashmir, the People's Conference (belonging to slain amalgam leader Abdul Gani Lone) is headed by his son Sajad Lone.

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