India to host conference on peace
with Pakistan
New Delhi, Jan 7 : Amid the deep chill in India-Pakistan ties, peace activists from the two countries will pitch for a thaw and also discuss autonomy to
Kashmir and Balochistan in a three-day conference to be held in the capital from Jan 10, 2010
The conference will see eminent personalities, including 22 from Pakistan, deliberating on a host of issues concerning India and Pakistan. Former Indian
prime minister I.K. Gujral is likely to open the 'India Pakistan conference - A road map towards peace'.
One of the sessions will be on issues of autonomy in Balochistan and Kashmir. The session will be addressed by human rights activist Asma Jahangir
and Balochistan senator Bizenjo Hasil Khan from Pakistan and Kashmiri separatist leaders Yasin Malik and Sajad Lone, said the organisers.
"Peace activists from India and Pakistan will suggest a mechanism for peace (between the two countries)," Kuldip Nayar, a veteran journalist and one of
the organisers, told reporters Thursday.
Asked if the effort would really help in breaking the ice between the two countries, Nayar said it didn't matter to them.
"We don't know if the (India and Pakistan) governments consider our suggestions. We are not concerned. We will continue our efforts till peace is built. Ours
is a continuous process," Nayar told IANS on the margins of the press conference.
Key speakers from Pakistan include former ministers Sherry Rehman and Iqbal Haider, advocate Aitzaz Ahsan and defence expert Ayesha Siddiqa.
From India, the conference will be addressed by Kuldip Nayar, former minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, former navy chief L. Ramdas, Peoples Democratic Party
chief Mehbooba Mufti and Kamal Chenoy of the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
The ties between the two countries broke down after the Mumbai terror attack in November 2008, for which India held terror groups in Pakistan directly
responsible. India has been maintaining that peace talks will not resume until Pakistan destroys terror sanctuaries on its soil.
Nayar asserted that India should resume talks with Pakistan as "distrust, suspicion and hostility go against the interests of the people".
--IANS
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RAW seminar on Balochistan
Umer Khan Quetta
The Indian Intelligence Agency Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) is organising a charade seminar at New Delhi’s India International Centre from January
10th to January 12th, and a Selected’ participants have been invited to discuss issue of autonomy for Baluchs and Kashmiris . Though a reasonable number
of participants have been invited from Pakistan to take part in the seminar but one particular segment of the seminar that targets Balochistan province of
Pakistan, titled “ Issue of Autonomy: Kashmir and Balochistan”, is epically drafted by our arch rivals to draw a comparison between the freedom movement in
Indian Occupied Kashmir and the RAW sponsored separatists movements in Balochistan province of Pakistan where RAW is super-actively engaged for
years and it is an established fact that the ultimate aim behind all these type of exercises on the part of RAW is to support anti-Pakistan elements . As in the
past different foreign agencies, including India’s RAW have remained actively involved in the formation of different militant and separatist outfits like
Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), Balochistan Rights Movement (BRM) etc. these foreign agencies have been continuously using such outfits in
Balochistan and have been patronising them. On the other side our present government is tight lipped about RAW’s involvement in the recent unrest of
Balochistan province. So it is need of the hour demanding our Islamabad government to revise its policy towards India and take strict action against all these
foreign backed actors.
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with Pakistan
New Delhi, Jan 7 : Amid the deep chill in India-Pakistan ties, peace activists from the two countries will pitch for a thaw and also discuss autonomy to
Kashmir and Balochistan in a three-day conference to be held in the capital from Jan 10, 2010
The conference will see eminent personalities, including 22 from Pakistan, deliberating on a host of issues concerning India and Pakistan. Former Indian
prime minister I.K. Gujral is likely to open the 'India Pakistan conference - A road map towards peace'.
One of the sessions will be on issues of autonomy in Balochistan and Kashmir. The session will be addressed by human rights activist Asma Jahangir
and Balochistan senator Bizenjo Hasil Khan from Pakistan and Kashmiri separatist leaders Yasin Malik and Sajad Lone, said the organisers.
"Peace activists from India and Pakistan will suggest a mechanism for peace (between the two countries)," Kuldip Nayar, a veteran journalist and one of
the organisers, told reporters Thursday.
Asked if the effort would really help in breaking the ice between the two countries, Nayar said it didn't matter to them.
"We don't know if the (India and Pakistan) governments consider our suggestions. We are not concerned. We will continue our efforts till peace is built. Ours
is a continuous process," Nayar told IANS on the margins of the press conference.
Key speakers from Pakistan include former ministers Sherry Rehman and Iqbal Haider, advocate Aitzaz Ahsan and defence expert Ayesha Siddiqa.
From India, the conference will be addressed by Kuldip Nayar, former minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, former navy chief L. Ramdas, Peoples Democratic Party
chief Mehbooba Mufti and Kamal Chenoy of the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
The ties between the two countries broke down after the Mumbai terror attack in November 2008, for which India held terror groups in Pakistan directly
responsible. India has been maintaining that peace talks will not resume until Pakistan destroys terror sanctuaries on its soil.
Nayar asserted that India should resume talks with Pakistan as "distrust, suspicion and hostility go against the interests of the people".
--IANS
http://www.littleabout.com/news/54981,india-host-conference-peace-pakistan.html
RAW seminar on Balochistan
Umer Khan Quetta
The Indian Intelligence Agency Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) is organising a charade seminar at New Delhi’s India International Centre from January
10th to January 12th, and a Selected’ participants have been invited to discuss issue of autonomy for Baluchs and Kashmiris . Though a reasonable number
of participants have been invited from Pakistan to take part in the seminar but one particular segment of the seminar that targets Balochistan province of
Pakistan, titled “ Issue of Autonomy: Kashmir and Balochistan”, is epically drafted by our arch rivals to draw a comparison between the freedom movement in
Indian Occupied Kashmir and the RAW sponsored separatists movements in Balochistan province of Pakistan where RAW is super-actively engaged for
years and it is an established fact that the ultimate aim behind all these type of exercises on the part of RAW is to support anti-Pakistan elements . As in the
past different foreign agencies, including India’s RAW have remained actively involved in the formation of different militant and separatist outfits like
Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), Balochistan Rights Movement (BRM) etc. these foreign agencies have been continuously using such outfits in
Balochistan and have been patronising them. On the other side our present government is tight lipped about RAW’s involvement in the recent unrest of
Balochistan province. So it is need of the hour demanding our Islamabad government to revise its policy towards India and take strict action against all these
foreign backed actors.
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