Hurriyat to meet Musharraf in New Delhi

The All-Parties Hurriyat Conference on Monday said it will meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf [ Images ] during his visit to the country on April 16.

"We will be meeting Musharraf on April 16. This has been verbally communicated to us," the amalgam's founder-chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq told PTI.

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Musharraf will arrive in New Delhi [ Images ] on April 16 to watch the final one-day cricket match of the ongoing series between India [ Images ] and Pakistan the next day.

The conglomerate will hold crucial executive and general council meetings on Tuesday in Srinagar [ Images ] to finalise the strategy vis-à-vis talks on Kashmir [ Images ], he said.

The Mirwaiz said the Hurriyat is open to talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ Images ] on the Kashmir issue.