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Interlocutrors ready to meet Hurriyat on Kashmir report

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 3:44 AM IST

"We will be more than willing to approach the separatist groups to engage with them let them give us their feedback on specifics on the report of what it said.

"Let them also know that the focus of the report is on the political aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir...." Dileep Padgaonkar, one of the three interlocutors, said after government made public their report.

He said the government has encouraged them to get the feedback. "It is only after getting the feedback including from the political parties and once a consensus develops, the government can take a view on it," he added.

Asked whether their report reflected the opinion of separatist groups like Hurriyat Conference, he said the interlocutors team has met more than 700 delegations and represents all shades of opinion.

"It is true that the separatists did not meet us. We made every effort to meet them but they did not meet us. However, their views are well known and taken into account in the writing of the report," he said.

Besides Padgaonkar, Jamia Milia University professor Radha Kumar and former Information Commissioner M M Ansari were the other two members of the group which submitted its 176-page report to Government last year. MORE

  

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First Published: May 24 2012 | 4:35 PM IST

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