Merchant showed the door to Alok Kumar 4-2 in a well-fought quarter-final clash.
The dialogue with Malik will be the prime minister's second meeting with a separatist group outside the Hurriyat Conference fold.
India No 1 Alok Kumar also got off to a good start when he beat Ashok Shandilya on the opening day of the MIG All India Invitation Snooker Tournament.
The Indian Mujahideen follows the same pattern as its creator, Lashkar-e-Tayiba.
Thailand's Supoj Saenia swamped India's Yasin Merchant 7-0 to win the Asian Snooker Championship title.
After the meeting with the Pak PM, separatist leaders admitted that differences persisted.
After young Pankaj Advani and experienced Ashok Shandiliya fetched a gold and silver on Tuesday, it was the turn of the snooker team, comprising Aditya Mehta, Yasin Merchant and Rupesh Shah, to bring cheer to the Indian camp.
Pankaj Advani will lead the Indian challenge in the IBSF World Snooker Championships in Jordan.
Pankaj Advani did the star turn as India 'A' beat Thailand in the semi-finals.
Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's security during the Lok Sabha poll campaigns is the utmost concern for the party top leadership.
The Congress that had announced a list of 218 candidates in one go for the 224 member Karnataka legislative assembly on April 15, had kept the names of candidates for six seats on hold.
Yasin Merchant and Pankaj Advani beat Devendra Joshi and Aditya Mehta to make the grade in the semi-finals of the Reid and Taylor Bombay Gymkhana InstaSnooker.
Asian champion Jin Long of China and former continental winner Yasin Merchant are among the cueists for the Reid and Taylor Bombay Gymkhana Instant tournament.
A tug of war was witnessed in a Delhi court between the National Investigation Agency and the Special Cell of Delhi Police for seeking the custody of top Indian Mujahideen operatives Tehseen Akhtar and Zia-ur-Rehman alias Waqas.
Protests rocked parts of Kashmir Valley including Srinagar on Saturday where Pakistan and Islamic State flags were yet again displayed by masked youths after Eid prayers.
The latest developments from the violence-hit valley.
India 'A' routed USA 'B' 9-0 in the ISBF World Snooker Team Championship.
Pankaj Advani's India 'A' team went down crashing 2-7 to England at the World Snooker Team Championship.
India 'A' thrashed Isle of Man 3-0 in their inaugural match in the IBSF World Snooker Team Championship.
The cases of persons under detention in the state were reviewed and 44 of them were released.
British police on Thursday arrested nine men in south London in connection with the investigation into the failed attacks on the city last week.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday afternoon arrived in summer capital Srinagar after visiting troops at the Siachen glacier, the world's highest battlefield in Ladakh region.
West Bengal has a 2,200 km porous border with Bangladesh over 10 districts.
JKLF leader Yasin Malik on terrorism and independence.
The 2008 Mumbai terror attack in Mumbai exposed the lack of coordination among law enforcement agencies despite there being intelligence of an attack.
Akbar said around 30 members belonging to various constituents of the Geelani's faction have been invited by the Pakistan High Commission. They include Geelani, Ashraf Sehrai, Shabir Shah and Nayeem Khan.
In a significant move, Kashmiri separatist leaders on Sunday decided to convene a meeting of all stakeholders on Tuesday to decide the future course of the nearly four-month-long shutdown in the Valley.
The relief supplies collected by Malik would go in a PIA flight separately later this week.
Najar was wanted for his alleged involvement in more than 50 killings
The separatist leaders told the Pakistani Foreign Minister that the Indo-Pak talks would be futile till Kashmiris are involved in the process.
'No Musharraf or Vajpayee can solve this problem till the people of Kashmir are involved,' JKLF leader Yasin Malik tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
It was prompted by the discovery that Pakistan may have been the source of crucial technology for Iran's secret nuclear programme.
They scored thumping victories over Yasin Marchant and Sarang Shroff respectively in the semi-finals of the National Snooker Championship.
A key operative of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen was on Friday arrested from Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi by the National Investigating Agency.
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