Responding to a question about his "failure" to motivate the Centre to hold talks with separatists, Omar said, "I had been successful in motivating the Centre rather than separatists. If separatists' intention are true then they should be ready to talk to the Centre. But unfortunately separatists have been taking one step forward and two steps backward."
"It is easy to motivate the Centre, but it is difficult to motivate separatists. We cannot forcefully drag them to dialogue table, we can forcefully bat for it," he said.
Replying to another question on restrictions imposed on Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Omar said, "It was administrative decision which was taken earlier to check his movement and it is again administrative decision to let him go now. Beyond that nobody needs to read more into it."
