Brussels.
Dr Karn Singh should play his role for reconciliation among Kahsmiri leadership and to protect vitial insterests of the people of entire Jammu Kashmir state. This is emphasised by Jamil Maqsood General Secretary of United Kashmir Peoples National Party who met with Dr Karan Singh in Brussels yesterday.Talking to Jamil Maqsood Mr Karan Singh expressed his deep concern over the devastation of the earthquake in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir and the failure of state institutions to help needy people in the hour of difficulties of shelter and besic facilities in this regard. He persuaded that the solution of Kashmir issue can't be achieved at the barrel of the gun and there is no future of violence any where in the world.He emphasised on political wokers,intelligenti a,civil society members to play thier role to end religious bigotry,foreign terrorists networks and condemnation of foreigners interferance into the polity of pakistani Occupied Kashmir. He expressed his hope that
peace would return to Kashmir very soon. Jamil Maqsood expressed and told him about the historical stance of the United Kashmir Peoples National Party to resolve kashmir issue.He said that it was UKPNP the first political Party in POK which condemned proxy war inflicted by the Pakistan and which destroyed civil society of Kashmir and entire political culture of former princly state. Jamil Maqsood expressed thanks for the indian civil society for granting Gandhi peace award to Chair UKPNP Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri for his services rendered to peace in the region.Mr Karen Singh told him that he would like to meet with the Party leadership soon. He would visit Europe and shall gather the opinion of kashmiri diaspora in regard to Kashmir conflict.

Jamil Maqsood
United Kashmir Peoples National Party Belgium

European Parliament resolution of 24 May 2007 on Kashmir: present situation and future prospects (2005/2242(INI))
The European Parliament ,
– having regard to its recent resolutions referring to Jammu and Kashmir, in particular its resolutions of 29 September 2005 on EU-India relations: A Strategic Partnership(1) , of 17 November 2005 on Kashmir(2) , of 18 May 2006 on the Annual Report on Human Rights in the World 2005 and the EU's policy on the matter(3) , of 28 September 2006 on the EU's economic and trade relations with India(4) and of 22 April 2004 on the situation in Pakistan(5) ,
– having regard to the Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on Partnership and Development(6) , the conclusion of which was approved by Parliament on 22 April 2004(7) ,
– having regard to all the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council on this issue between 1948 and 1971(8) ,
– having regard to the concerns expressed by various working groups and rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights Council and its predecessor, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and by international human rights organisations regarding breaches of human rights in Kashmir,
– having regard to the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960,
– having regard to the report on the visits of Parliament's ad hoc delegation to Jammu and Kashmir adopted by the Committee on Foreign Affairs in November 2004,
– having regard to the devastating earthquake which struck Jammu and Kashmir on 8 October 2005,
– having regard to United Nations General Assembly Resolution No A/RES/60/13 of 14 November 2005 praising the governments and peoples involved in the earthquake relief and reconstruction efforts,
– having regard to the visit of President Pervez Musharraf of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the Committee on Foreign Affairs on 12 September 2006,
– having regard to the 7th EU-India Summit held in Helsinki on 13 October 2006,
– having regard to the renewed peace efforts in Kashmir since the truce agreement came into force in 2003, followed by President Musharraf's pledge in January 2004 that Pakistani territory would not be used for cross-border terrorism, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's forward-looking vision that "borders cannot be redrawn but we can work towards making them irrelevant" and a further round of peace talks which started on 17 January 2007,
– having regard to President Musharraf's recent four-point plan to resolve the Kashmir conflict (no change in the boundaries of Jammu and Kashmir, free movement of people across the Line of Control (LoC), staggered demilitarisation, and self-governance with a joint supervision mechanism representing India, Pakistan, and the Kashmiris), and also to Prime Minister Singh's suggestion that there be a comprehensive treaty of peace, security and friendship,
– having regard to the visit of Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Pakistan on 13-14 January 2007, during which four agreements aimed at confidence-building were signed,
– having regard to the International Crisis Group's Asia Report No 125, of 11 December 2006, and the reports by Amnesty International, Freedom House, Human Rights Watch and the US State Department on human rights,
– having regard to the visits made by Parliament's rapporteur to both sides of the LoC in June 2006,
– having regard to Rule 45 of its Rules of Procedure,
– having regard to the report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (A6-0158/2007),
A. whereas the disputed territory which constituted the former Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir is currently administered in separate parts by the Republic of India, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of China, and has a total population of 13.4 million,
B. whereas much of Jammu and Kashmir, in particular Gilgit and Baltistan, suffers from extreme poverty and neglect, with enormous deficiencies in basic literacy and numeracy and in access to healthcare, a lack of democratic structures and major deficiencies in the rule of law and justice; and whereas the whole of Jammu and Kashmir suffers from exceptional economic decline,
C. whereas the question of water resources is also a factor exacerbating the dispute between Pakistan and India over Jammu and Kashmir and is an important element of any definitive resolution,
D. whereas Jammu and Kashmir has been a source of conflict for nearly 60 years, a period punctuated by armed conflicts between India, Pakistan and China; whereas this dispute has allegedly claimed more than 80,000 lives; whereas the conflicts between India and Pakistan now include international terrorism; and whereas China, India and Pakistan are nuclear powers, although India and Pakistan have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
E. whereas there is considerable evidence that over many years Pakistan has provided Kashmiri militants wi