Shabir Shah to take decision on Round Table today

Srinagar, May 22: The Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP) will take a final decision later today on the invitation from the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for two-day Round Table conference being held here from May 24.

"We are meeting this afternoon to take the decision whether we should participate in the conference or not," JKDFP chairman Shabir Ahmad Shah told UNI.

He said besides the members of the working committee, the highest decision making body of the DFP, some special invitees are also participating in the meeting.

Mr Shah, who stayed away from the first round of the Round Table Conference which was held at New Delhi, said the only agenda of the meeting was to discuss the invitation.

He said the final decision will be taken only after members and special invitees express their views.

"We will take the decision keeping in view all the aspects of the Kashmir issue," he said adding the DFP also believes that negotiations only will help to move ahead to find a durable solution to the issue.

UNI

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