Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 16: Members of All Jammu Civil Society Forum (AJCSF) visited Rajouri and held interactions with various members of civil society in the area.
As a part of the programme of touring and interacting with civil society members of different districts for strengthening Jammu province by ensuring communal harmony, peace and brotherhood, a three- member delegation of AJCSF visited Rajouri district. The Team was led by Co-Convenor Abdul Majid accompanied by Aslam Qurashi (Retd DC) and Hussain Ahmad Siddiqui (Advocate). The delegation held a series of meetings with prominent members of civil society, representing various literary, social, political and religious organizations of Rajouri.
During the interaction, aimed at peace promotion programme, Abdul Majid highlighted the aims and objectives of AJCSF. He emphasized that the main object of AJCSF is to strengthen the Jammu province by maintaining peace, communal harmony and brotherhood among all sections of the society by going across any divisive lines, political or religious differences. He further said that Jammu province is a very sensitive yet a harmonized secular region, therefore, it is imperative to retain its time tested culture of mutual respect, understanding, peace and brotherhood.
Various speakers in the meeting expressed their concern over the disturbed situation in Kashmir. They brought out that they are the direct sufferers of the discord between India and Pakistan over various issues, and victims of resultant spill over of communal tensions from the disturbed areas.
They observed that in order to ensure the integrity and unity of the State, a permanent and peaceful solution of Jammu & Kashmir crisis should be worked out in a time bound manner that is acceptable to all stakeholders. They said India and Pakistan should start a dialogue to resolve the issues involved, without, creating any war hysteria or continuing with the proxy war policy and pushing in terrorists.
Grenade blast in Poonch district on August13 was vehemently condemned and people demanded that probe should be ordered to find out the design behind such nefarious act.
Bloodshed going on in Kashmir for the last more than 39 days be immediately stopped and civil society of Kashmir should come forward and play an effective role to defuse tensions to bring Kashmir out of present crisis.
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