Hurriyat to re-open Delhi office soon

Srinagar, May 7 (UNI) The moderate Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq will soon re-open its office in New Delhi, amalgam sources said today.

The sources said the office will enable the moderate Hurriyat leaders to remain in constant touch with the Centre.

''It will also act as a link between India and Pakistan,'' they added.

The Hurriyat Conference was forced to close down its office in the national capital on February 9, 2003, three days after the then amlagam spokesman Shabir Ahmad Dar, and a woman activist, Anjum Zamrooda Habib the Delhi Police on charges of channelling funds to militant organisations in the Valley.

The Delhi Police had raided the office on February 6, 2003.

The Hurriyat Conference office, named as the Kashmir Awareness Bureau, had functioned from a rented accommodation at Shivalik Nagar in Malviya Nagar area from 1995 to 2003.

The separatist conglomerate was asked to vacate the premises by the house owner after the disclosures which sparked a row between India and Pakistan, leading to expulsion of diplomats by the two countries.

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