Bandipora: 14 Mar 2018
Kashmir is internationally accepted dispute and there is no doubt we are living in disputed area said noted writer, poet Prof Ismail Ashna.
Ashna made these comments while participating in a seminar titled ‘Kashmir Conflict and Impact on Youth and The Way Forward’ in Space Age higher secondary school Kaloosa in North kashmiri’s Bandipora District.
“India should respect and accept this Reality. It is disputed region,” Ashna said.
Ashna told gathering that Kashmiri’s live in a zone where a father is not sure to see his son back after he leaves his home. “We have so many examples that youth who went out to do some work came back dead or never returned.”
Ashna said that Kashmir respects Indian people, ‘but they should accept Kashmir is disputed region’, failure to which ‘there will be another Indo-Pak war.’
“Dialogue between the two countries is the only way to resolve this long pending dispute and should be resolved as per aspirations of Kashmiri people,” he told gathering.
“All dialogues on Kashmir are meaningless without the participation of Kashmiris. The Indian government should realise that Kashmir is a core issue,” he added.
The seminar was Organised by Aash, a NGO to create awareness about the Kashmir Conflict and its Impact on Youth.
The seminar was attended by people including the academics, Political Analysts, and members of civil society including Eminent-writer, Poet and Polticial Activist Prof Ismail Ashna, Political Activist Sameer Iqbal Bhat who Spoke on that Occasion. The seminar was also attended by Scores of students of Space age and Mehboob ul Alam School.( INS )
