Frontline Pakistan : The Struggle With Militant Islam - Arz-e-Pak

11 Frontline Pakistan
Kashmiri families. But for the militants it was a betrayal of their cause. 32
In an attempt to derail the peace process, the militants attacked the
Tourist Reception Centre in Srinagar, where the passengers of the
inaugural bus were kept under strict security.
‘This is not what we have sacrificed thousands of lives for,’ Syed
Ali Shah Geelani, the head of his own faction of APHC, told me
when we met at his Srinagar residence, a day after the bus had left
for Muzaffarabad. 33 The 70-year-old, white-bearded Geelani was
the chief of Jamaat-i-Islami in Kashmir, and had close links with the
Islamic militants fighting Pakistan’s proxy war. For his ardent support
for Pakistan, he was often described as an ISI agent until Musharraf’s
turnaround. With Pakistan now betting on the moderates, Geelani felt
isolated. But his loyalty to Pakistan was unquestionable. ‘Musharraf is
destroying Pakistan. Things will change once he is gone,’ he said.