Separatist leaders invited for talks with Pak minister

Pakistan High Commission in India has invited top Kashmiri separatist leaders,including heads of both factions of Hurriyat Conference,for a meeting next week with visiting Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar.

Deputy High Commissioner in the Pakistani mission in New Delhi,Syed Zulfikar called Syed Ali Shah Geelani,Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Shabir Ahmad Shah for a meeting with Khar on July 26,Hurriyat sources said.

The leaders have accepted the invitation and are leaving for New Delhi to meet Khar and brief her about the prevailing political scenario in Kashmir,they said.

Khar,who is the youngest and first woman Foreign Minister of Pakistan,will be arriving in New Delhi on a two-day visit on July 26.