Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference (Geelani) Syed Ali Shah Geelani said that his party would deliberate on the central government’s reported offer for a dialogue only after a formal invitation was received by him.
This he said while addressing a media conference at his uptown Hyderpora residence.
He was reacting to media reports, which said the central government was likely to make an offer for an unconditional dialogue to Kashmiri separatist leaders.
“Once such an offer is made to us, our ‘Majlis-e-Shoura’ (assembly of elders) would meet where a decision would be taken,” Geelani said.
Geelani, however, parried questions about any preconditions for the dialogue with the centre.
The report had received credibility when academician Radha Kumar, who was a member of the three-member interlocutors’ panel on Jammu and Kashmir, told media persons in Srinagar earlier this week that the centre was seriously mulling a dialogue offer to Kashmiri separatist leaders.