India will attach no conditions to peace talks with Kashmir's political separatists, the home minister said on Saturday, in an attempt to resume a dialogue stalled due to new terms set by New Delhi. Shivraj Patil's comments came a day after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held his first face-to-face talks with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in New York to push forward a sluggish peace process that was getting stuck over Kashmir. "We attach great importance to our discussions with Hurriyat ... we have said that we will talk unconditionally," Patil said in an interview to the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency. "Let them say whatever they want to say, we will say whatever we have to say and we will find out on what topics we can agree," Patil said. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella alliance of two dozen Kashmiri political groups, began unprecedented talks with the Hindu nationalist-led government in New Delhi earlier this year to help end the Kashmir revolt. But the talks appeared to have broken down last month after Singh's centrist Congress party-led government, which took power in May, insisted they be held within the constitution, which says Kashmir is an integral part of India. --More 1834 Local Time 1534 GMT
