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| Sayeed interacts with US policy-makers at Heritage Foundation | | | Washington|Oct 3
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Patron, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was invited to interact with a select group of top US policy-makers at the Heritage Foundation, an influential US think-tank here on Monday before his departure for New Delhi.
Giving a detailed overview of the prevailing situation in Jammu & Kashmir and his party's agenda for peace and reconciliation in the sub-continent, Sayeed told the meeting that the Indo-Pak peace process is moving ahead resolutely and it is has started transforming the region's security and economic scenario. He said the reconciliation process is going to make noticeable progress with the stabilization of the political situation in Pakistan giving further impetus to the positively evolving situation in Jammu & Kashmir.
Sayeed made it clear that there is no military solution to the Kashmir issue and the time has come to consolidate and fully empower the democratic and the civil society institutions in the State for the sake of peace and resolution of its problems. He said the political leadership and the public institutions must now take control of the situation to amplify the public stakes in peace.
Emphasizing that a set of internal and external confidence building measures should go side by side to pull Jammu & Kashmir out of the morass and make it a conduit of peace in the sub-continent, Sayeed said while at the local level dependence on troops must now be phased out, on the external front there must be substantial progress on the intra-state confidence building measures allowing free movement of people and goods across the line of control and the international border in all parts of the State. He said these measures are going to have noteworthy impact on the situation.
Walter Lohman - Director Asian Studies Center Heritage Foundation, Lisa Curtis -Senior Research Fellow Heritage Foundation, Walter Andersen Director South Asia Program Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Kara Bue - Partner, Armitage International, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Political Military Affairs, Mark Webber - Special Advisor Office of the US Vice President, Tim Fitzgibbons - India desk officer US State Department, Nilmini Rubin - Professional Staff Member (Minority) US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Nicholas Hamisevicz - Research Assistant Heritage Foundation and US-based Kashmiri attorney, Mumtaz Wani were present at the interaction. |
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