Separatists Accept India's Talks Offer

World | October 23, 2003, Thursday // 00:00

Kashmiri separatists accepted an offer for talks from the Indian government, but said they would discuss a solution to the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan as well. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a legal grouping of religious and political parties that wants Kashmir to be separate from India, responded positively to India's announcement Wednesday that Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani would hold talks with them about the province's future. Hurriyat "has decided that within 10 days we will come up with a program on the basis of which discussions will be held with India and Pakistan," former Hurriyat chairman Abdul Ghani Bhat told reporters.
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