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"Involve militants too"

Shujaat Bukhari

To make the process credible

SRINAGAR: People's Democratic Forum chairman Hakim Mohammad Yasin has called for involving militants and separatist leaders of Jammu and Kashmir in the dialogue process to make it credible and result-oriented.

Mr. Hakim, who is also the Transport Minister, attended the third roundtable chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Tuesday.

The roundtable is a welcome step to push forward measures on economic development, confidence building and issues related to victims of violence. But the dialogue process would be complete only when separatists joined it, he told The Hindu.

"I think until the separatist political parties and militant leaders such as Salahuddin are not on board we cannot make much headway."

He said parties that were part of the roundtable discussed threadbare the issues laid down by the four working groups.

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