Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be on a two-day visit to Kashmir from Monday during which he is expected to renew the offer for talks with separatists and review the progress in the Round Table peace initiative and development work being undertaken in the state. Official sources said on Sunday that the Prime Minister will address a convocation of the Sher-e-Kashmir Agricultural University in Srinagar. Governor N N Vohra, who is also the university's Chancellor, had invited Singh to the event. Tight security arrangements are being made with police pickets erected at various places to combat threats from terror groups. A ''hartal'' call has been given by pro-Pakistan leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani which was supported by Aasiya Andrabi of hardline separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Millat.
It will be for the second time that the Prime Minister will be visiting the Kashmir valley after he got a second term last May. He was in Sringar last October. Singh will also be accompanied by Union Ministers Farooq Abdullah, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Prathviraj Chauhan. The Prime Minister will begin his visit by holding consultations with various political parties of the state over the progress on recommendations made during the two sessions of the Round Table Conference chaired by him.
It will be for the second time that the Prime Minister will be visiting the Kashmir valley after he got a second term last May. He was in Sringar last October. Singh will also be accompanied by Union Ministers Farooq Abdullah, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Prathviraj Chauhan. The Prime Minister will begin his visit by holding consultations with various political parties of the state over the progress on recommendations made during the two sessions of the Round Table Conference chaired by him.
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