Pakistan strongly believe in peaceful resolution of Kashmir issue: Pak Envoy

Pakistan’s ambassador to Indonesia Sanaullah Thursday emphasized that Pakistan strongly believed in peaceful resolution of Kashmir issue. He was addressing a round table conference held here Thursday at the Pakistan’s embassy in Jakarta in connection with Black Day observed through out the world today to condemn the attack by Indian forces to capture Kashmir in 1947. Participants at the Round Table on Kashmir viewed that insensitivity of the international community to plight of the Kashmiri people was deplorable.



Members of the Indonesian media, university students and scholars attended the round-table addressed by Ambassador Sanaullah, Chairman Kashmir Solidarity Forum, Dr. Zahir Khan, Editor Sabili magazine, Daniel Handoko, Political Analyst, Institute of International Studies, Gadjah Mada University, Ms Irmawati and Ms Faridah, prominent Indonesian scholar.
Other notable presence was that of Ditto Papilanda from the second largest news daily, Republika. He said that it was criminal to portray the valiant struggle of Kashmiri people as an act of militancy. There were no militant groups in Kashmir what so ever, he reiterated.
He said there were of course political groups and parties which represented the Kashmiri struggle for the right to self determination but ‘no way it could be described as an armed struggle’.
Ambassador Sanaullah said Pakistan has always lent moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri brethren and would continue to do so in future.
He observed that media and human rights organizations had the obligation to highlight the oppression of Kashmiri people at the hands of Indian security forces.
He agreed to the consensus views expressed by the participants that international community had turned a deaf ear to the plight of Kashmiri people.
“May be if there were oil reserves in Kashmir, people would be running over to help out,” he remarked.
On a question the Ambassador said, Pakistan welcomed diplomatic and moral support from the brotherly Muslim country Indonesia and its people in regard to the Kashmiri’s struggle for right to self determination.
Dr. Zahir Khan in his address traced history of the Kashmir issue.
He said without world powers and international organizations, a viable resolution would be difficult to this issue.
Editor Sabili magazine, Daniel Handoko, Political Analyst Ms Irmawati and Ms Faridah, prominent Indonesian scholar were of the view that the Muslim world had an obligation to extend support to the Kashmiris.
Media in the Muslim countries should also highlight this problem otherwise it would go into oblivion, they said.

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