2 This is an individual initiative of four people, being called a Citizen Initiative. Encouraged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day speech to embrace Kashmiris, a four-member delegation reached the Kashmir Valley today to meet members of civil society and Sufi clerics. Calling it a citizen initiative, these members also intend to meet traders there, people of the Bar Association, Ulemas and other factions. Since it is not constituted by the Union Government and unlike the interlocutor group of 2010, the members call this attempt a citizen initiative. We want to make it seem a citizen initiative and listen to different voices beyond mainstream political voices.

Source: India Today August 19, 2017 07:15 UTC