*Asks Indo-Pak political leadership to show magnanimity
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 22: Cautioning against allowing escalation of violence on the Line of Control (LoC) and International Border (IB), patron of People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Mufti Mohamamd Sayeed today called upon political leadership of both India and Pakistan to show greater magnanimity at this juncture and work for silencing roaring guns on the borders and replacing the war cries with talks of friendship and peace.
Instead of resorting to the blame game or being jingoistic with slogans of “strong retaliated actions” being raised by some forces, the political leadership of the two countries must assert on this occasion to resume the snapped process of composite dialogue for resolving all their disputes including these ceasefire violations through peaceful, undisrupted and sustainable negotiations”, Mufti said while addressing a meeting of senior leaders of the party in which a resolution on the prevailing situation of LoC and IB was passed.
He said that both New Delhi and Islamabad must talk to each other realizing the dangerous consequences of any escalation of confrontation.Peace between the two countries is crucial for stability, progress and economic prosperity of the region. Both the countries should have to snub those elements who have been raising senseless highly dangerous war hysteria”, he said and reminded that every war between India and Pakistan was followed by dialogue so there was no reason for both the countries to allow escalation of skirmishes on the borders.
Later, a resolution was passed in the meeting in which party emphasised on maintaining sanctity of cease fire so as restore peace in the borders.
The resolution pointed out that people of Jammu and Kashmir have high stakes in peace because they are the worst suffer of hostility between two neighbouring countries. The escalation of hostilities, which have the ominous potential of leading to a full-scale bloody war and perpetuation of conflict is not in the interests of the common people of the two neighbouring countries, who have been suffering the brunt of this conflict for the past over sixty years and have a stake in peace.
Those in the border areas are bearing brunt of any armed confrontation and have been frequently uprooted from their hearths and homes at the time of hostility between two countries, the meeting observed and emphasised on the need of maintaining sanctity of the cease-fire any cost.
“The dialogue process should not be related to the events but should be process driven so that the elements inimical to peace lose the incentive to disrupt the peace process. The people of Jammu and Kashmir have invested significantly in the peace process since 2002 and there is need to carry forward the same process to its logical end,” the resolution said.
Cease-fire announced in the year 2003 was result of people’s urge for peace which they had exhibited during the historic rally of then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee at Srinagar in the year 2003.
“The cease fire announced at that time had brought positives changes in lives of the common people of Jammu and Kashmir but unfortunately the situation has returned back to pre-2003 situation”, meeting observed.
Prominent among those who were present in the meeting included Sardar Rangil Singh, Yash Pal Sharma, MLC, Trilok Singh Bajwa, Sayeed Asgar Ali, MLC, Ved Mahajan, Shanti Devi, Daman Bhasin, Fallail Singh, Hussain Ali Wafa, Jagjeet Singh Jagga, Bharat Bhushan Gupta, Hamid Choudhary, Mehboob Iqbal and others.
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