New Delhi: Hurriyat Conference chairman Maulana Abbas Ansari tonight (Jan 22, 2004) said the meeting with Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani would serve as an "eye-opener" to those hardliners who had been criticising the amalgam leadership of making a sell-out of Kashmir cause.

"We have been accused by the hardliners of making a sell-out of Kashmir cause. But now they will have to eat their words," Ansari said after his meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister.

He described the meeting as a "breakthrough" and said, "Gradually, we will inch closer towards the resolution of the Kashmir issue."