ISLAMABAD – Turkey’s Institute of Strategic Thinking and Pakistan’s LahoreCenter for Peace Research.
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The speakers added that India’s Aug. 5 move to unilaterally scrap thespecial provisions of the disputed region is a potential trigger to causeinstability in South Asia.
The provisions allowed Jammu and Kashmir to enact its own laws andprotected the region’s citizenship law, which barred outsiders fromsettling in or owning land in the territory.
Khan, who is also chairman of the Lahore Center for Peace Research, said:“India has tried to silence Kashmiris in past. It did not work and it willnot work in future too.”
Sherry Rehman, a senator from Pakistan, said: “India is trying to redefinethe global order […] It is doing it by use of power, not soft power.”Rehman said India’s unilateral actions in Kashmir is a “slap on the face ofinternational community and United Nations”.linklinklink
“India’s attempt is not to just contain the resistance [of Kashmiris] butalso contain the [Kashmir] story… not to let the news filter out,” Rehmansaid, about the communications blackout imposed by India in the aftermathof the change in status of the Muslim-majority state.
India has since gradually eased the lockdown partially restoring cell phoneservices. Shamshad Ahmad Khan, a former Pakistani diplomat, warned that ifthe Kashmir dispute remains unresolved “it will have disastrousconsequences as it has become a virtual nuclear flashpoint”.
Khan, who is also chairman of the Lahore Center for Peace Research, said:“India has tried to silence Kashmiris in past. It did not work and it willnot work in future too.”
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Senator Sherry Rehman delivereing keynote speech at internationalconference on Kashmir hosted by Turkey in Ankara.linklink
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Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) lawmaker Erkan Akcay said thatworld faces six key problems: Jerusalem, Cyprus, Kashmir, Crimea, Kashgar(Xinjiang). “If these issues are solved the world will become a betterplace to live,” he said.
According to him, Kashmir has become the frontier of U.S.-China hegemony.“Israel sells weapons to India, while U.S. backs India to counter China,”he said.
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party lawmaker Muhammet AminAbasoglu said the hopes and wishes of Kashmiris are integral to anysolution.
“1972 Shimla Agreement created a status quo and both – India and Pakistan –should fulfill conditions of this agreement,” he said, noting that the pactbound both parties to resolve the dispute through negotiations.
President of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Ali Erbas recalled his school days,saying: “We would raise slogans in favor of struggle of Kashmiris.”President of Turkey’s Court of Cassation Ismail Rustu Cirit termed Kashmiras a “bleeding wound”.
Former Iranian Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi said: “Kashmir disputehas affected many aspects of the region, including development, and thepeople of Kashmir as well as Pakistan have suffered a lot for 73 years now.”
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President of Supreme Court of Appeals of Turkey Ismail Rüştü Cirit whileaddressing international seminar “Kashmir in Turmoil” stressed on the needof a just system to address human rights issues in Kashmir & finalresolution of the dispute according to aspirations of Kashmiris.
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“[But] Israel has been invited to the region which is dangerous,” he said,referring to growing India-Israel bilateral relations.*Pan-South Asia vision*
U.K.-based Kashmiri lobbyist Lord Nazir Ahmad said that India’s rulingparty has a pan-South Asian vision called “Akhand Baharat — Great India”.
“The acts of hardcore Hindu nationalists have nothing to do with Hinduism,”he said.
