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New York, Nov 16
Self-rule could lead to solution of the Kashmir issue and present a way out to preserve sovereignty of India and Pakistan, People' Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has said.
This, he said, is the only way out to "eliminate the source of ethno-territorial conflict" in the sub-continent and integrate the region with the fast moving global economy.
"The basic premise of the self-rule formula is that while exploring a solution of the Kashmir issue, we have to look out for inter nation-state institutional mechanism that preserves sovereignty of the two nation-states (India and Pakistan) but still has a supranational basis," he said.
Such an arrangement is possible only by giving the institutional mechanism an economic basis, the former J&K Chief Minister told a seminar on "Kashmir-The Way Ahead", jointly organised by two US think-tanks, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Stimson Centre, on Monday.
"In view of the past history, the stated positions and the emotional surcharge, a one-point-one-time solution for resolution of the conflict is a near impossibility," Sayeed said, adding that a step-by-step sequence of practical, less dramatic and insightful measures was an imperative for extrication of the state from the "tragic muddle." Sayeed said for a sustainable solution of the problem, an "innovative institutional arrangement having political, economic and security character" has to be put in place.
Sayeed's recent suggestion of the "self-rule" in J&K has evoked a mixed bag of reaction with the hardiline Geelani faction Huriyat Conference strongly criticising it.
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