All-party teams meet Hurriyat leaders

Srinagar, September 20: In a bid to break the current impasse, teams of the all-party delegation to Kashmir today separately met Hurriyat leaders and gave them a patient hearing but the separatists insisted on withdrawal of army and asked the Centre to take bold decisions instead of being in a “denial mode”.

Chairman of hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani demanded that Jammu and Kashmir should be accepted as a “disputed” territory as a pre-condition for starting the dialogue process with the Centre.

Interacting with five-members of the all party delegation which called on him at his Hyderpora residence here, Geelani suggested that Parliament should constitute a committee to go into all the issues faced by Kashmiri people.

–Agencies