Indo-Pak ties: 'Change in behaviours must for peace'
Indian jurists want LoC to be accepted as international border.
LAHORE:
Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial said on Saturday that a behavioural change needed to improve Pakistan-India relations.
He was addressing a seminar on Role of Jurists in Indo-Pak Harmony held under the auspices of the Punjab Bar Council to welcome a delegation of Indian lawyers.
Bandial said harmony emerged when justice was provided to the masses. “We have to change our ways as individuals if we want to bring about a change in the region,” he said.
The 110-member delegation arrived here on Saturday to discuss promotion of friendly relations between the two nations.
The delegation, led by Adish C Aggarwala, president of the International Council of Jurists and the All India Bar Association, is also scheduled to meet supreme court judges.
Aggarwala said they would hold meetings with jurists from the Lahore High Court, the Islamabad High Court and lower courts in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Nankana Sahib. “The Indian jurists are of the view that the people of this region should accept the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir as international boundary for the cause of prosperity.
Both India and Pakistan have been spending a large part of their budgets just to protect themselves from each other,” he said. These funds could be utilised for the cause of education, hospitals, roads and communications, he said.
“We hope that our counterparts would agree to the LoC proposal,” Aggarwala said.
Punjab Bar Council Vice Chairman Malik Ghulam Abbas Nissoana said people of Pakistan and India loved each other.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 30th, 2012.
Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial said on Saturday that a behavioural change needed to improve Pakistan-India relations.
He was addressing a seminar on Role of Jurists in Indo-Pak Harmony held under the auspices of the Punjab Bar Council to welcome a delegation of Indian lawyers.
Bandial said harmony emerged when justice was provided to the masses. “We have to change our ways as individuals if we want to bring about a change in the region,” he said.
The 110-member delegation arrived here on Saturday to discuss promotion of friendly relations between the two nations.
The delegation, led by Adish C Aggarwala, president of the International Council of Jurists and the All India Bar Association, is also scheduled to meet supreme court judges.
Aggarwala said they would hold meetings with jurists from the Lahore High Court, the Islamabad High Court and lower courts in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Nankana Sahib. “The Indian jurists are of the view that the people of this region should accept the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir as international boundary for the cause of prosperity.
Both India and Pakistan have been spending a large part of their budgets just to protect themselves from each other,” he said. These funds could be utilised for the cause of education, hospitals, roads and communications, he said.
“We hope that our counterparts would agree to the LoC proposal,” Aggarwala said.
Punjab Bar Council Vice Chairman Malik Ghulam Abbas Nissoana said people of Pakistan and India loved each other.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 30th, 2012.