Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 8: Partici-pating in the debate on India-Pakistan relations organized by the Institute of Peace and Development at India Internati-onal Centre, New Delhi, today, former PCC president Prof Saifuddin Soz emphasized that India and Pakistan are duty-bound to measure the miseries that Kashmiris suffered all these years of turmoil due to the conflict on Kashmir.
The discussions were inaugurated by Khurshid Mohd Kasuri, former Foreign Minister of Pakistan.
Prof Soz reminded the largely attended gathering that several years ago, credible agencies, foreign and national, had accepted the figure as 70,000 killed and with 8000 disappearances in crossfire during the years of armed militancy.
Prof Soz lamented that it seems while Kashmiris continued to suffer, tragedy after tragedy, both India and Pakistan continue to live with conflict as only Kashmiris paid the price.
He appealed to the gathering that seminar after seminar on the Kashmir dispute is not the way-forward and emphasized that concerned citizens of both countries like the gathering at IIC, should become a ‘Pressure-Group’ for India and Pakistan so that both countries come forward for resolving the Kashmir dispute.
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