ISLAMABAD, November 23: ‘Even if there is some lull, Indians won’t let us forget. Kashmiris have decided not to be a part of India.’This was stated by Sardar Masood Khan, President, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Government of AJ&K, while delivering his keynote address at the international conference on ‘Strengthening Peace and Cooperation in South Asia – Incentives and Constraints’ organized by the Islamabad Policy Research Institute and Hanns Seidel Foundation.The Security Council has double standards for Syria, Yemen, North Africa and whole of Africa, but it pays no attention to the issue of Kashmir. The UN Security Council is not holding any debate despite ruthless killings in Kashmir by ISF. But we should make a transition from helplessness and despondence to success. If the two nuclear powers i.e. India and Pakistan decide to go to war, it will be a disaster not only for both the countries and south Asian region but for the whole world.
‘The long-standing Kashmir issue is the biggest failure of international diplomacy’, said Dr Muhammad Khan, former HOD from the National Defence University in Islamabad in his presentation.
Dr. Attaullah Wahidyar, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Education from Kabul, Afghanistan in his heartfelt appeal to the audience and to South Asian governments stressed that in order to create space for future leadership, the blame game that Pakistan is a source of terror; India supports the Baloch; the NDS support the TTP, needs to be stopped.-PR