New Delhi: The crucial second-round of talks between Hurriyat Conference and Kashmir Committee led by Ram Jethmalani began on September 7 evening to find ways and means of solving the Kashmir issue.

The four-member Hurriyat Conference delegation was led by its chairman Abdul Gani Bhat and comprised senior executive members Mirwaiz Umer Farooq (Awami Action Committee), Javed Ahmed Mir (JKLF) and Sheikh Ali Mohammed (Jamaat-e- Islami).

The Kashmir Committee has declared that polls have been delinked from its efforts as of now and that its agenda would be to evolve a consensus on resolving the Kashmir imbroglio by working closely with the separatist leaders.

While the Committee hopes that the Hurriyat would come with a prepared agenda, the conglomerate's chairman said the agenda would be worked out only after the two sides sit across the table.

Bhat has also made it clear that Hurriyat Conference would not be making any efforts to meet the Central leaders but said "such a meeting can take place once the Centre assures that we would be allowed to meet the leadership in Pakistan".

"The General Council of Hurriyat has authorised us only to hold talks with the Kashmir Committee and no one else," Bhat said.

The Hurriyat leaders were earlier expected to come on September 6 but had changed their plans after Bhat was detained at his residence, a charge denied by the Jammu and Kashmir police.

The Kashmir Committee had met the Hurriyat leaders in Srinagar last month.

PTI