PM calls meeting to discuss situation in Kashmir

Prime minister Manmohan Singh has convened a high-level meeting this evening to discuss the situation in Kashmir, which has seen unrest for the last four days.

The meeting will be attended by Union home minister P
Chidambaram and senior officials of his ministry and security agencies.
    
Chidambaram is expected to brief the meeting on his discussions with Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar
Abdullah.

The meeting is expected to take note of intelligence reports suggesting that certain elements from Pakistan were trying to foment trouble in the valley.

National security advisor Shiv Shankar Menon is also likely to attend the meeting.

Kashmir has been on the boil due to protests over killings of youth in alleged CRPF firing.