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WEBINAR: THE UNFOLDING SITUATION IN KASHMIR AFTER 5TH AUGUST 2019
China Study Centre, University of Peshawar has organized a webinar on, “the unfolding situation in Kashmir after 5th August 2019” on 4th August 2020. Many renowned experts analyzed the issue from different angles. Prof Dr Zahid Anwar, Director, China Study Center in his welcome address said that the BJP Government in India has unleashed a policy of extremism and expansionism to establish Hindutva and its abrogation of article 370/35A regarding Kashmir is galvanizing extremism and hegemonism in the region. This brinkmanship of the current Indian Government has threatened regional peace and stability. The purpose of this webinar is to analyze the implications of the abrogation of article 370/35A for Kashmir and the region at large. He welcomed the distinguished speakers.
Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Director General, Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, in his keynote address thanked China Study Centre, University of Peshawar for organizing the webinar on such an important issue. He said that India has colonized Kashmir and has broken the promise of self-determination to the people of Kashmir it made almost 70 years ago. India has the sinister design to bring demographic change in Kashmir and to turn Muslim majority into a minority and in this connection it is borrowing a leaf from Isreali book what it did in Palestine. PM Modi is extending Hindutva to every nook and corner of India and to Kashmir also. It wants to create Hindu Rashtra where all minorities will be second rate citizens. US-India Nexus emboldened India to establish regional hegemony and becomes a regional police-man. China is not an expansionist country nevertheless India ambition to become regional police-man has run into a clash with China. Recently what happened in Galwan valley and Indian attempt to fortify that area to build settlement there in order to reach Gilgit-Baltistan through another way created acrimony for China. Internationally a blatant violation of International Law has taken place. India is trying to change the status of disputed territory which is explicitly prohibited by the UN Resolutions. India is violating every provision of International Humanitarian Law. The people of Pakistan have no choice but to stand with the people of Kashmir. Pakistan has always diplomatically, morally and politically supported the people of Kashmir. International community is taking notice of the Indian atrocities against the people of Kashmir, UN, US, European Union, Turkey, Iran and Malaysia are expressing their frustration against what India is doing to the people of Kashmir. Another important development is opposition within India against BJP Government nefarious designs because the biggest damage MP Modi is doing is to India itself. Gone are the days when India could project its pluralistic, democratic credentials. Even when the world is not able to stem the hands of PM Modi we should continue to raise our voice because one day our combined effects of Pakistani, International and Indian voices will strengthen sanity to prevail. The people of Kashmir should be accorded the right of self-determination. We should speak for them and should do whatever we can for the just cause to end Indian annexation and occupation of Kashmir.
Rahimullah Yusufzai, Internationally renowned Journalist in his speech highlighted that Kashmir issue is very important but it is not resolved due to Indian actions in the last seventy two years. India is a big market despite that International community is raising voice about Indian atrocities against Kashmiri people. Pakistan should continue its effort to resolve the Kashmir conflict. India is creating problems for Pakistan in Baluchistan in former tribal areas and in Karachi. Recently China defeated India in Galvan valley and Ladakh. China and Pakistan collaboration is good for the resolution of Kashmir issue. Despite presence of nine hundred thousand troops in occupied K
