INDIA WORKING ON A SOLUTION ACCEPTABLE TO KASHMIR PEOPLE. (TAPE NO: DV-018)

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India working on a solution acceptable to Kashmir people.

India's Home (Interior) Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram says India is working on an equitable solution acceptable to vast majority of people in Indian Kashmir.

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SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA (OCTOBER 14, 2009) (ANI-ACCESS ALL)

1. PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM, INDIA'S HOME (INTERIOR) MINISTER, ARRIVING

2. CHIDAMBARAM TAKING SEAT

3. EVENT IN PROGRESS

4. CHIDAMBARAM RELEASING A BOOKLET READING 'JAMMU KASHMIR UPDATE'

5. REPORTERS

6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM, INDIA'S HOME (INTERIOR) MINISTER, SAYING: "Infiltration takes place from PoK, Pakistan occupied Kashmir as well as from Pakistan. There, the authorities recruit young men, give them training, to some extent brain wash them and then infiltrate them to India across the international border, the LoC (Line of Control) with specific tasks to attack targets, to attack people, to create mayhem in India."

7. REPORTERS

8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM, INDIA'S HOME (INTERIOR) MINISTER, SAYING: "We must find a solution that is honourable, equitable and acceptable to the vast majority, overwhelming majority of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, we are working on it and I am confident that we will be able to show progress and eventually success in that matter."

9. CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS

STORY: India's Home (Interior) Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said on Wednesday (October 14) India is working on an equitable solution acceptable to vast majority of people in Indian Kashmir.

e was addressing a press conference in Srinagar, the capital city of India's northern Kashmir state.

He also blamed Pakistan for brainwashing the young to target people and create mayhem in India.

The Indian army has stepped up its vigil along a military control line in Kashmir as Pakistan-based militant groups increase efforts to push into the region before snow blocks the mountain passes.

Earlier Indian army said there were at least four attempts of infiltration this month including the one in which the troops shot dead three militants when they tried to cross into Indian Kashmir.

The infiltration comes despite a ceasefire between the two armies and a three-metre-high barbed wire fence along much of the 742-km (460-mile) LoC.

"Infiltration takes place from PoK, Pakistan occupied Kashmir as well as from Pakistan. There, the authorities recruit young men, give them training, to some extent brain wash them and then infiltrate them to India across the international border, the LoC (Line of Control) with specific tasks to attack targets, to attack people, to create mayhem in India," Chidambaram told a news conference in Srinagar, main city of Indian Kashmir.

On opening of a peace talks, Chidambaram said that he was confident of finding a solution to Kashmir issue.

"We must find a solution that is honourable, equitable and acceptable to the vast majority, overwhelming majority of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, we are working on it and I am confident that we will be able to show progress and eventually success in that matter," he said.

The main separatist All Parties Hurriyat (freedom) Conference started talks with New Delhi in 2004, the first between the two sides since a revolt demanding independence began in 1989. More than 47,000 people have been killed.

The latest round of Kashmir talks was held in May 2006. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Hurriyat agreed then to establish a system to discuss solutions to the dispute over Kashmir, dating from the partition of the Indian subcontinent in the late 1940s.

But violence between militants and troops has declined considerably in Kashmir after India and Pakistan started a peace process in 2004. India called a pause to those talks after last year's attacks on Mumbai.

Hurriyat split itself in 2003 when hardliners headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani walked out after moderates decided to hold talks with New Delhi.

Both India and Pakistan, which have fought two wars over Kashmir, claim the region in full, but rule over parts of the region.