Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (L) during a news conference with Defence Minister George Fernandes (C) and opposition leader Sonia Gandhi in Srinagar on August 3, 2000. Vajpayee, who went to Kashmir with a delagation of political parties after recent killings, blamed Pakistan for the recent carnage in Kashmir and urged all militant groups to join the peace talks between New Delhi and the Hizbul Mujahideen.

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