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By Vinay Kumar
The Hurriyat Conference had conveyed to the Government its willingness to talk only after the Id, the Union Home Secretary, N. Gopalaswami, told The Hindu here this evening. The Home Secretary's comment means that peace talks with the APHC would have to wait till this month-end as Id is scheduled to be celebrated on November 26. He said a lot of groundwork is being done for the dialogue with the Hurriyat but refused to elaborate. Asked about the approximate date when talks would be held, Mr. Gopalaswami said that Hurriyat leaders were also holding discussions among themselves and the process would begin only after the holy month of Ramzan. The Hurriyat, which suffered a split in mid-September, would also like to utilise the month of Ramzan for doing its homework. Leaders of the Maulana Abbas Ansari-led Hurriyat are also busy holding discussions within the organisation as well as talking to separatist leaders out of the amalgam. After the October 22 announcement by the Vajpayee Government that the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, would talk to the Hurriyat, a high-power sub-committee, picked by the Cabinet Committee on Security met on October 29 and carried out a detailed "internal review'' exercise relating to the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Presided over by Mr. Advani, the meeting was attended by the chiefs of the Intelligence Bureau, RAW, the Centre's interlocutor on Jammu and Kashmir, N.N. Vohra, and top officials from the Prime Minister's Office and the Home Ministry. According to indications, the sub-committee or the core group would try to define the thrust of the proposed talks and provide all necessary inputs to Mr. Advani. The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, has said that talks between the Centre and the Hurriyat would be "unconditional'' and that "no one should have any misgivings about it.''
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