New Delhi, January 20
Leaders of the Ansari-led Hurriyat Conference arrived in the Capital today for the January 22 talks with Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani.
Five Hurriyat leaders —Moulvi Abbas Ansari, former chiefs Abdul Ghani Bhat and Mirwaiz Omer Farooq, People’s Conference representative Bilal Lone and Fazl-ul-Haq Qureshi — will take part in the talks with the Centre. The Mirwaiz arrived in the Capital yesterday.
Mr Ansari refused to answer questions about the agenda of talks. He said the delegation had come for
"unconditional talks’’ and would speak once the talks were over.
Mr Advani yesterday met senior Home Ministry officials regarding the talks. Centre’s interlocutor on Jammu and Kashmir N.N. Vohra was also present at the meeting.
