India would arrange for a dialogue between Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of the Tamil Eelam to stop the hostilities in the island nation if the government suspended military operations against the Tigers and the outfit laid down arms, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said in Chennai on Sunday.
"If this fructifies, the union government will arrange a dialogue between the two warring parties," he told a public
meeting at Mylapore on Sunday night.
He said the situation in the island nation would not have reached such a grave stage had the LTTE utilised the 48-hour
window period given by Sri Lanka recently to allow civilians to