SRINAGAR: The Central government’s newly-appointed interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma will begin a six-day visit to the Kashmir Valley from Monday to open talks with “all stakeholders”.
“I am very positive about my first visit to J&K as special representative of the Central government,” the former Intelligence Bureau director told the medias.“I will be visiting Jammu on November 9 and will stay there for two days. I will return to Delhi on November 11,” Sharma said. He, however, added that he is ready to extend his stay if more people and delegations come to meet him.
Asked what would be focus of his talks with the stakeholders in the state, Sharma said, “Let me go and meet the people first”.
In response to a question whether he would also be inviting separatists for talks, he said, “Let me go and see”.The separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik have refused to talk to interlocutor.The three leaders, who spearheaded five-month-long agitation in Valley last year following killing of Hizb commander Burhan Wani, have termed appointment of interlocutor as “nothing more than a tactic” to buy time by New Delhi…