New Delhi, Aug 9: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet an all-party delegation from Jammu and Kashmir led by state chief minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday to discuss the current situation in the Valley and ways to resolve it.
The meeting will be held at the residence of Manmohan Singh - 7, Race Course Road - at 6 pm tomorrow.
Besides the prime minister, Home Minister P Chidambaram, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon are likely to attend the meet, sources said.
 During the meeting, from which opposition PDP has decided to stay away, the prime minister is expected to seek views of the political parties on ways to restore peace in Kashmir which has been witnessing a cycle of protests following the killing of three youths in a fake encounter in Machil in north Kashmir followed by the death of a 17 year old boy Tufail Ahmad Mattoo when hit by a tear-smoke shell allegedly fired by the police during protests in Srinagar.
 Union minister Farooq Abdullah, Ali Mohammed Sagar and Abdul Rahim Rather will represent the ruling National Conference while Saif-ud-din Soz will be leading the Congress delegation.
 Others invited for the meeting include representatives of CPI (M), BJP, Nationalist Congress Party, Panthers Party, BSP, Samajwadi Party and Democratic Freedom Party.
 Omar had called an all-party meeting in Srinagar on July 12 but opposition PDP had refused to attend it also. Its chief Mehbooba Mufti had then said the meeting should instead be called by the prime minister.
 JK Panthers Party, which had boycotted the meeting in Srinagar, has agreed to participate in tomorrow’s meeting with the prime minister here.

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