Far from being a success, the prime minister
The Hurriyat, on the other hand, was acceptable to denouncing violence on a case-by-case basis, silence when security forces were targeted by terrorists, but vocal when people were caught in the crossfire, but the PM, officials said, was unwilling for this, saying that all forms of violence had to be denounced for talks to acquire meaning.
Not wanting to go back empty-handed, with a stigma of failure, the Hurriyat delegation including Abbas Ansari, Abdul Ghani Bhatt, Bilal Lone and Fazl Haq Qureshi, volunteered for a case-by-case denunciation of violence, but the government side remained unimpressed, saying that the Centre