Pak to host International conference on Kashmir

Srinagar, July 10: An international conference on Kashmir will beheld at Islamabad in Pakistan on July 13 to mark the 76th anniversaryof 'Martyrs Day'.

The conference, organised by Asian Media Link and Kashmir watch,has been titled ''Approaches Towards Resolution of Kashmir Issue''.

In a release here, the organisers said the conference would beheld on July 13 to commemorate the ''supreme sacrifices of the peopleof Kashmir in 1931''.

''Dogra forces gunned down several people for raising their voiceagainst the Maharaja and also for demanding freedom,'' they added.

The organisers said the focus of the conference would be currenttrends in Kashmir, UN recognition for right to self-determination, arepositions of India and Pakistan tenable and finally ways and means toreach the goal, which is ''freedom''.

Noted legal, defence and media experts besides prominent leaders,from Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and severalother countries have been invited to the conference.

UNI