Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called an all-party meeting to discuss the worsening situation in Indian-administered Kashmir.
It comes as protests continue in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir valley and the Hindu-majority Jammu region.
The Jammu protesters are angry at a decision by the state government to revoke a move to allot land for a Hindu shrine in the Kashmir valley.
Mr Singh is expected to ask other parties to help calm the situation.
Eight people have been killed and many more injured in the Jammu protests over the past fortnight.
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Muslims argued the move was aimed at altering the demographic balance in the area.
The state government said the Amarnath Shrine Board needed the 40 hectares of land to erect huts and toilets for visiting Hindu pilgrims.
Discussed
According to reports, the prime minister is expected to ask the other parties, in particular the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to help resolve the situation in Kashmir.
BJP president Rajnath Singh is due to attend the meeting.
Over the past couple of days, he has been in discussions with Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Officials say Mrs Gandhi and the prime minister have both asked the BJP leader to use his party's influence with the protesting Hindu groups in Jammu to quieten the situation.
Meanwhile, protests continue in both the Kashmir valley and the Jammu region on Wednesday.
Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has called for a shutdown in Srinagar, capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, says the BBC's Altaf Hussain in Srinagar.
Worsening tensions
On Tuesday, police in the Kashmir valley fired tear gas to disperse Muslim protesters who pelted the security forces with stones.
Meanwhile, much of the Jammu area remains under curfew, with troops patrolling the streets.
Hundreds of Hindu protesters - angry at the state government for backing down in the face of large-scale Muslim protests - tried to set a government office on fire on Tuesday.
Officials said police had tried to disperse them but later had to resort to firing on the crowd. One person died and several others were wounded.
The BBC's Binoo Joshi in Jammu says tensions have been exacerbated by the decision not to include the Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti (AYSS) - one of the main Hindu groups spearheading the protest campaign - in the all-party meeting with the prime minister.
The BBC's Chris Morris in Delhi says that the latest trouble comes after years of relative calm in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
(BBC)
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