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Congress leaders meet PM to raise Kashmir situation

A high-level Congress delegation met Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today and expressed concern over the deteriorating law and order situation in Jammu and Kashmir and also efforts to internationalise the Kashmir issue for the first time in recent years.

The delegation included Arjun Singh, Rajesh Pilot, Dr Manmohan Singh, Oscar Fernandes and Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. Home Minister L K Advani was also present at the meeting which lasted for about 40 minutes.

Talking to UNI after the meeting, Pilot said the delegation expressed concern over the increase in infiltration of foreign trained militants in the valley and the selective killing resorted to by them in the Jammu region to communalise the issue. The state and the central governments have failed to provide a healing touch to the people of the valley who bore the brunt of militancy for over a decade.

Pilot said Vajpayee shared the concern of the Congress leaders and assured them that their sentiments would be borne in mind when the government initiates action to normalise the situation in the trouble torn state.

UNI

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