Ex-hijacker to attend third round-table conference on Kashmir

Srinagar, Apr 19 (UNI) Democratic Liberation Party (DLP) chairman Hashim Qureshi today announced that he would participate in the third round-table conference to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on April 24.

With the announcement, the third round-table conference would have a token participation of secessionists as other separatist groups -- both the factions of the Hurriyat Conference headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front led by Yasin Malik, Democratic Freedom Party of Shabir Shah and others -- have rejected the conference.

The DLP chairman had also attended the first round-table conference in New Delhi on February 25 last year, but boycotted the second conclave here on May 24-25.

Mr Qureshi announced his decision at a news conference here.

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