Peoples Conf release vision doc on Kashmir issue

Srinagar, Jan 6: People Conference (Sajjad) today released about300-page vision document suggesting ways and means how to resolve theJammu and Kashmir issue peacefully.

Releasing the vision document, Peoples Conference (PC) chairmanSajjad Gani Lone claimed that it was a roadmap to resolve the conflict,which has claimed the lives of more than one lakh people.

However, he said, the document is by no means exhaustive and israther put forth to introduce new ideas, critical thinking, a set ofclear criteria and an exhaustive agenda for public discourse in theentire Jammu and Kashmir, which exists before 1947.

The vision document is a comprehensive analysis and a concretearticulation of a Jammu and Kashmir perspective which needs to beunderstood and debated in all its details, he said, adding that givenits meticulous nature, it was hard to reduce it to a short summary.

It is our belief that the model and the new state of affairs wouldseeks to bring about the '' Achievable Nationhood'' for the people ofJammu and Kashmir.

Mr Sajad said the achievable nationhood envisages the creation offive entirely new overlapping relationships within two power-sharingstructures -- the relationship between this part of Jammu and Kashmirand India, between Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Pakistan, between boththe Kashmirs, between Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan, and betweenPakistan-occupied Kashmir and India.

Achievable nationhood exactly defines these relationships in terms of the exercise of powers, rights and privileges, he said.

He said achievable nationhood is the net result of these fiverelationships which are interlocking, interdependent, irreversible, andcomplimentary. The model is incomplete without all five relationshipsbeing realised.

''Achievable Nationhood'' achieves unification of the two parts ofJammu and Kashmir through an elaborate arrangement of sectoral overlapsand the creation of a wide range of joint institutions.

Furthermore, he said, ''Achievable Nationhood'' propounds thecreation of a single Jammu and Kashmir Economic Union, which wouldresult in a boundary-less and prosperous Jammu and Kashmir.

Mr Sajjad said he will send the copies of the document to PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf.

The document was released a year after PC leadership met Dr Singhin New Delhi on the Kashmir issue. However, the PC stayed away from thefive working committees, set up to address different issues relating toKashmir.

The document in English traces the historical perspective of theKashmir issue, including a reference to the pre-partition freedomstruggle, the events in 1947, the United Nations resolutions passed onKashmir and other happenings.

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