The Hurriyat Conference Monday called for a "comprehensive" ceasefire by all groups including the militants and security forces as part of its three-point formula to resolve the Kashmir issue.
The 23-party separatist alliance of political and religious groups said the formula also envisaged trilateral talks and setting a time-frame for a solution to the vexed problem. "We propose negotiations involving India, Pakistan and true representatives of people of Jammu and Kashmir, simultaneous ceasefire by all involved and a time-frame for resolution of Kashmir issue," Hurriyat Chairman Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat told newsmen in Srinagar. Bhat said the appeals by world leaders in the recent weeks to address the Kashmir issue was a "shot in its arm" for the amalgam.
Bhat said the chances of a solution to the Kashmir issue have brightened especially after the U.S President George Bush's recent offer to bring India and Pakistan together to have good and meaningful talks on Kashmir taking into account the "wishes of the people of the state". Bureau Report