Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Kashmiri pro-independence leader Yasin Malik to talk directly
Sonia Joshi
Feb. 13, 2006

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Kashmiri pro-independence leader Yasin Malik are scheduled to talk on Feb. 17 in New Delhi.

India's prime minister on Monday invited Kashmiri pro-independence leader Yasin Malik for talks on ending the decades-old dispute over the Himalayan territory, officials said.

Malik is the chief of the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, which launched insurgency in the Indian portion of Kashmir in 1989. The group, however, later gave up arms and has been campaigning for a Kashmir independent of both India and Pakistan. Reached for comment, Malik said he had just received the invitation, and would be meeting with top members of the group to discuss whether to accept it and what the agenda should be. As Singh launched peace initiatives with Pakistan, he also held talks with the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella group of political and religious separatist leaders in Kashmir, in September.

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