Comprehensive dialogue for settlement of Kashmir dispute stressed
Jammu: Scores of socio-political activists participated in an interaction program with the prominent members of the Indian civil society in Jammu, today.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the meet was organized by the United Peace Alliance (UPA), an association of several socio-political organizations and activists, to discuss a wide range of issues and challenges being faced by the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The visiting delegation of Indian civil society comprised peace activist Daya Singh, senior journalist Anand Vardhan, Ashok Wankhede, Sheikh Hussain, Arwind Khushwahah, Ajay Shukla and Anokha Lal.
The speakers belonging to the several socio-political organizations narrated a long saga of pain and suffering faced by the people of the occupied territory. They said occupied by the so-called largest democracy on earth, there are no traces of democracy in Kashmir.
They said there was no place for dissent with the strict restrictions on the right to expression in Jammu and Kashmir and called for a comprehensive dialogue process among all the stakeholders to resolve the Kashmir dispute, once and for all.
The speakers also called upon the visiting delegation of Indian civil society to highlight issues of basic human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir at all the forums across India.
Mir Shahid Saleem, the UPA Chairman, speaking on the occasion thanked the noted members of the Indian civil society who came from India to share the pain and sufferings of the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir. He said the Indian civil society can play a vital role in making the people of India understand the Kashmir conflict with its historic background.
The members of the visiting delegation assured the participants of the meeting that they would continue to highlight the colonial treatment meted out to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Those who spoke on the occasion included ID Khajuaria, Muhammad Yousaf Tarigami, Sheikh Abdul Rehman, Tarsim Lal, Maqbool, Shibanji Koul, Kulbushan Singh, Inder Dev Singh, Sunny Kant Chib, Chodhary Sayeed, Narinder Singh Khalsa, Subash Mehta, Babu Hussain Malik, Tajinder Singh, Lakash Bali, Dr Muhammad Hussain, Harjit Singh, Sukhdev Singh, Pritam Singh, Advocate Jamil Kazmi, Mansoor Magray, Farooq Ahmed and Sheikh Yousaf.
