Kashmir: (Steps to avoid ignoring Kashmir amid COVID-19 pandemic stressed).

ISLAMABAD -- Youth Forum for Kashmir (YFK), an international Kashmir lobby group has organized a webinar that brought together Kashmir experts to explore steps to avoid the possibility that a global focus on COVID-19 pandemic might take attention away from the situation in Kashmir.

According to a report of Kashmir Media Service, the webinar was titled 'How to avoid Kashmir de-focus amid pandemic concerns'. Altaf Hussain Wani, Chairman, Kashmir Institute for International Relations, Dr Waqas Ali Kausar, Head of Department of Governance and Public Policy at NUML, Prof. Shagufta Ashraf, University of AJK at Kotli, Advocate Pervez Shah from APHC, and Ahmed Quraishi, Director, YFK participated in the discussion.

During the discussion Dr Kausar dismissed the notion that the current pandemic would strike Kashmir from the headlines. The conflict in Kashmir, he argued has seen highs and lows over the...