Comprehensive policy needed to counter threat from India: Masood Khan.

ISLAMABAD -- Sardar Muhammad Masood Khan, President Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), has urged think tanks, research institutions, academics, and students for preparing a comprehensive strategy to help create critical global awareness on the plight of the Kashmiris, help strengthen and stabilize Pakistan and Azad Kashmir in terms of defence and economic development. He added that a strong Pakistan and AJK will guarantee the realization of the right to self-determination of the people of IOK.

Addressing a one-day workshop on "Kashmir conflict and South Asia's security" jointly organized by Defence and Strategic Studies (DSS) Department of Quaid-e-Azam University and Islamabad Policy Institute, he said that we would have to come forward to devise a policy to not only counter the dangers confronting the country but also to divert the dangers posed by India to the whole region.

He warned that if we as a united nation, failed to make Pakistan a powerful state, we will not only be losing Kashmir but also will have to tackle the existential threat posed to Pakistan from India.

The AJK president said that to ensure peace and stability of Pakistan, it is imperative to not only bring Pakistan at par in terms of defense to deter the enemy from casting an evil eye on our country. For this purpose, he maintained that it is necessary to ensure unity and cohesion among the nation along with ensuring the economic development of the country.

Sardar Masood Khan stressed the need for understanding India's strategy for Pakistan and the whole region. "The incumbent Indian rulers are toeing a policy design to establish 'Akhand Bharat' or 'Bharat Bhoomi' in the region," he said, adding that Akhand Bharat will have no room for the followers of any other religion including the Muslims, and that India's action of August 5 was also part of the same strategy.

He said that India's aggressive posture leaves little space for peace in the region and this escalation may lead to a war between the two...