Source: The Hindu,
News Update as at 18.00 hrs (IST) on June 30, 1999
PAKISTANI RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ASK INDIA, PAK. NOT TO MOVE TOWARDS WAR
Islamabad, June 30 (DPA): Two officials of the independent Human Rights
Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) have urged the political leaders of India and
Pakistan to resist "pressure from jingoistic circles'' and stop moving
towards war. HRCP president Afrasiab Khattak and his predecessor Asma
Jahangir said in a joint appeal published today that another war between
the two nations would not solve the Kashmir problem and would only worsen
the poverty of their peoples. They said India must realise that peace would
not return to the region unless it recognised the importance of a permanent
solution to Kashmir. Pakistan, on the other hand, should be more precise on
its position on Kashmir. ``Are we (Pakistan) supporting the cause of the
Kashmiri people for an independent identity or one affiliated to either
Pakistan or India? In either case war will get us neither,'' the rights
activists said.
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