SRINAGAR. India. June 5: Two Kashmiri militant leaders called off a fast they had started to demand the merger of rival guerilla groups, fallow Ing assurances by separatist politicians they would work for it. their spokesman said today, reports Reuter

He said Yasin Malik, presl dent of the separatist Jammu and Kashmir.Liberation Front (JKLF) and Bashir Ahmed Butt, the group a general secretary, were given a glass of orange Juice by a leader of Kashmir s Hurrtyat (freedom) Party on Saturday, hours after they began their protest

Hurrtyat, In a message conveyed by senior party leader Maulvl Abbas Ansari as he of (fred the orange juice, assured Malik that the party would try to patch, up differences among the various guerilla groups and bring all militants together