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Kashmir separatists reject india talks Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/5687632.htm http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/5687632.htm Tuesday, Apr 22, 2003 Breaking News Posted on Tue, Apr. 22, 2003 Kashmir Separatists Reject India Talks MUJTABA ALI AHMAD Associated Press SRINAGAR, India -A bomb exploded beside a rural road in Kashmir on Tuesday, killing five people and injuring 12 others as an Indian government negotiator visited the area to try to resolve the dispute over the divided Himalayan region. The explosion 40 miles south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu-Kashmir state, occurred along a road frequently used by army patrols - the presumed target of the attack. The explosives were apparently placed by the road near a community pasture where the victims had gathered to milk and graze their cows. No group claimed responsibility for planting the explosives, but authorities suspected separatist militants who have fought for 13 years to merge India's portion of Kashmir with Pakistan, said Ghulam Hassan, a local police officer. The attack took place as former Indian Home Secretary N.N. Vohra made a weeklong visit to the state to explore the possibility of talks with separatist groups. But separatist leaders said Vohra did not have the mandate to discuss the issues they want to raise. "If he can declare that he is prepared to discuss the future dispensation of Jammu-Kashmir, only then a dialogue offer from him would merit our consideration," said Abdul Ghani Bhat, chairman of the separatist 23-party All Parties Hurriyat Conference. The largest Islamic militant group in Kashmir said Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's offer to hold talks with Pakistan was not made in good faith. Spokesman Salim Hashmi of Hezb-ul Mujahedeen called the offer "a deception to gain time to crush the freedom movement in Indian-occupied Kashmir." Islamic militants have been fighting since 1989 for mainly Muslim Kashmir's independence from India or its merger with Pakistan in an insurgency that has claimed 61,000 lives. Vajpayee said on Saturday that India would send a top foreign ministry official to Islamabad to draw up a schedule for negotiations if Pakistan announces an end to its support for cross-border attacks and closes training camps for Islamic guerrillas in its territory. Pakistan says it is ready for talks, but denies there is any infiltration launched from its territory.

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