The grandson of India's founding father has called for a solution of the Kashmir dispute acceptable to all parties - India, Pakistan and the Kashmiri people.
Replying to a question at the Bacha Khan Peace Conference held to honour the memory of "Frontier Gandhi" - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan - Rajmohan Gandhi said that the Kashmiri people had greatly suffered at the hands of the Indian government as well as the militants.
Gandhi, who was the keynote speaker, said the Kashmiri people were facing many difficulties and he stressed the need for a resolution through non-violent means.
The conference on Bacha Khan was jointly organised by Awami National Party and Khyber Society, USA. Rajmohan Gandhi paid tributes to Ghaffar Khan and his Khudai Kidmatgar movement that advocated non-violence.
That movement, he said, was based on the concept of service to humanity and adopting non-violence means instead of the prevailing tendency of revenge among the people.
ANP Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan, ANP Provincial President Afrasiab Khattak and some others addressed the conference by telephone from Pakistan. They spoke on the life and mission of Bacha Khan and many of today's problems, including the phenomenon of extremism.
Addressing the conference, Dr Raj Wali Shah Khattak, a Pashto scholar, said that Pakhtoon blood was being spilled and called for the appointment of a neutral commission to study the causes of extremism and to identify those backing and funding it.