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"Once India takes an initiative with good intentions, we will give up guns at once and observe a real ceasefire so that the process makes headway," the outfit's deputy supreme commander Moin-ul-Islam said in an article published in an English daily in Srinagar on Thursday.
"Unless a genuine peace process is set in motion - the Hizbul Mujahideen and other United Jehad Council constituents would remain wedded to the armed struggle," he said.
The council is an umbrella organisation of over a dozen Pakistan-based militant outfits operating in Kashmir.
In July 2000, Hizbul Mujahideen had announced a unilateral ceasefire but its Pak-based leadership withdrew it a fortnight later after India rejected the outfit's demand to involve Pakistan in any talks on Kashmir.
Referring to the recent 'Dubai meeting' between Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone with PoK leader Sardar Abdul Qayoom, he said decisions made at that conclave amounted to 'day dreaming' as the leaders lacked corresponding schemes to back the measures.
Criticising the Hurriyat for their statements after the meeting, he said, "Whatsoever the reason and rationale underlying this sensational event (Dubai meeting), it has harmed the Kashmir cause beyond description."
Islam said that the Dubai meeting had 'unveiled the hidden agenda of certain saner voices of Kashmir politics. Their utterances before and after the meeting has shocked all Kashmiris'.
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