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The Centre may hold talks with Hurriyat Conference sometime after the Ramzan which ends later this month. Union Home Secretary N. Gopalaswami on Monday said a committee would chalk out a road map for the proposed parleys with the separatist conglomerate.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a CRPF function, Gopalaswami said that the committee would do the groundwork before talks with the Hurriyat leadership.

Besides Gopalaswami, the committee comprises Centre8217;s interlocutor on Kashmir N.N. Vohra, Cabinet Secretary Kamal Pande, Intelligence Bureau director K.P. Singh and former RAW chief A S Dulat.

The committee was formed after the government announced last month that Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani would be holding talks with Hurriyat Conference chairman Maulvi Abbas Ansari.