Kashmir Separatists Meet to Consider Talks Offer
April 18, 2001 - 0:0
SRINAGAR, India The leaders of Kashmir's main separatist alliance began a meeting on Tuesday to consider their response to an Indian peace envoy's invitation for dialogue, Reuters said. Krishna Chandra Pant, deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission and a former minister, was appointed by the government earlier this month to interact with a broad cross-section of figures in the insurgency-plagued state of Jammu and Kashmir.