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Separatist vows to launch his own political party SRINAGAR, India, Tuesday (AFP) Hardline Kashmiri separatist Syed Ali Geelani said he would launch his own political party and appealed to all those who want "an end to Indian occupation" of the strife-racked region to join. The 73-year-old pro-Pakistan firebrand, who spent 14 years in Indian prisons for his opposition to India's rule over a large part of Muslim-majority Kashmir, made the announcement while addressing worshippers celebrating one of Islam's biggest festivals, Eid al-Adha. "I have decided to form a new party," Geelani said in the town of Sopore in the north of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, which has been racked by a deadly separatist revolt since 1989. He called on "all those who want an end to Indian occupation" in Kashmir to join, although he did not say when he would launch the party. Witnesses said thousands rallied in the town later to support Geelani. |
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