Kashmir conference to be held in UK on June 6

18 May, 2004

A day-long international Kashmir conference will be held in Birmingham on June 6, 2004, to enable Kashmiri leaders from both sides of the Line of Control (LoC), to discuss various facets of the pestering Kashmir issue.
President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Muhammad Anwar Khan would be the chief guest on the occasion.
The conference is expected to be attended by Kashmiri leaders from Europe, America and Indian occupied Kashmir.
Many British MPs and member of European Parliament were expected to attend it, President of Tehrik-e-Kashmir UK Muhammad Ghalib told APP here on Monday.
The Kashmir conference was scheduled to be held in London in February but had to be postponed due to death of the President of Kashmir Freedom Movement Dr Ayub Taukhar, he said.
Ghalib said the Kashmir was an issue, which basically pertained to Kashmiris right to self-determination as was enshrined in the-UN Security Council's resolutions.
The deliberations at the conference could help them ponder over the ways as to how they could play an active role in the current peace process between Pakistan and India.
The conference would have different sessions, which would be devoted to legal, political and human rights issues about the long-running issue of Kashmir.
He said the conference was expected to once bring the Kashmir into the spotlight and hopefully would generate interest among the British parliamentarians.

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