Major attempt to end stalemate, Centre invites J&K leaders for talks on June 24
Deccan ChronicleSrinagar: Jammu and Kashmir's mainstream political leaders are being invited for talks by the Centre next week. Former chief minister and leader of People’s Democratic Party, Mehbooba Mufti, confirmed that she has received an invitation for the talks slated to be held in New Delhi on June 24. PAGD president and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah said that his National Conference party’s core group will first sit to discuss how to respond if a formal invitation from the Centre comes and evolve a ‘strategy’ for such an engagement ‘keeping the interests of the J&K people above everything else'. Former minister in the PDP-BJP government and J&K Apni Party chief Altaf Bukhari said that the solution to J&K’s problems lies with New Delhi. The invitees include former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, former deputy chief ministers Tara Chand, Muzaffar Hussain Baig and Nirmal Singh and Kavinder Gupta, CPI leader Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami, J&K Apni Party chief Altaf Bukhari, People’s Conference chairman Sajjad Gani Lone, JKPCC chief Gulam Ahmad Mir, his counterpart from BJP Ravinder Raina and National Panthers Party supremo Prof Bhim Singh.