Senator Seher Kamran Tuesday emphasized on the need for a pro-active diplomatic approach by Pakistan and India to resolve Kashmir and water disputes for durable peace in the region.
Senator Sehar Kamran (TI), President CPGS, made these remarks while welcoming the participants of a seminar on Pakistan-India relations: Challenges and Prospects held at the Centre for Pakistan and Gulf Studies (CPGS).
“No country can survive without peace but in the aspiration of peace, compromising national interests would damage the country’s long standing resolve on the issue of Kashmir” Senator Kamran added.
Stressing effective use of diplomacy, President CPGS said voice should have been raised against Indian brutal human rights violations in Kashmir with full power.
Participants of the roundtable expressed that though India’s secular face was disfigured due to its atrocities and brutal human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir but on diplomatic front, no much advantage of these had been taken.
Ghulam Mohammad Safi, a renowned scholar and Kashmiri leader cautioned that unresolved Kashmir issue was a persistent threat to the stability of South Asia and war could ignite between India and Pakistan.
Irshad Mehmood said that after a violent years of freedom struggle, Kahsmiris not only returned to non-violent movement but also developed their own Kashmiri narrative but India had given no space to this peaceful transition and as a result youth again started joining armed struggle.
Other participants including Lt. Gen. ® Agha Muhammad Umer Farooq HI (M), Dr. Tahir Amin (QAU), Farooq Rahmani, Nasir Hafeez TI (M) (NDU), Shamsa Nawaz (ISSI), Heba Al-Adawy(IRS), Dr Mavara Inayat (QAU), Dr. Adil Sultan, Bilal Akram Shah, and Ghani Jafar (CPGS) stressed that confidence building measures (CBM’s), composite dialogue process and trade ties were necessary between Pakistan and India for a meaningful solution of Kashmir issue.
Same version of the article appeared in Daily Balochistan Times