'Confidence building measures in pipeline to resolve issues'
Srinagar: Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh's two-day visit to the Kashmir valley later this week,
J-K Congress chief Saifuddin Soz said on Monday several confidence
building measures were in the pipeline to resolve various
issues in state.
"Several confidence building measures are in the pipeline
and initiatives will be taken by the central government in
normal course," he said at a two-day seminar on 'Post
elections challenges in J and K' organised here by Delhi-based
Institute of Peace Research and Action.
"Personally speaking, CBMs that come up in the wake of
impending dialogue will have a greater impact and
significance", Soz said. But he did not elaborate.
"Decisive" dialogue is the only way to sort out issues in
the valley Soz said adding, "people of Kashmir have rejected
violence as an instrument of settling problems."
The centre has said it would initiate a dialogue with all
shades of political opinion in Jammu and Kashmir to formulate
contours of a solution.
"We will hold dialogue with every shade of political
opinion in J and K to find a solution in a civilised way.
The
dialogue will not be in full media glare. It will be a quiet
dialogue. It will be through quiet diplomacy," Union Home
Minister P Chidambaram said here on October 14.
Bureau Report