Only Kashmir News Desk
Amid the fragile relation between India and Pakistan, veteran peace activist O.P Shah Founder and Chairman of “Centre from Peace and Progress” has come up with a well-researched book titled “In Pursuit of Peace: Improving Indo-Pak Relations”
The book has divulged important aspects needed to bring out the much-needed bonhomie between India and Pakistan and touched on the aspect of the burning issue of Kashmir.
The main focus of the upcoming book according to its Editor, O. P Shah has favored an increase in the intensity of people-to-people contacts between the people of the divided parts of Jammu and Kashmir in particular and the people of India and Pakistan for peace and regional stability in the Sub Continent.
The book has views and opinions of prominent personalities of South Asia, including former vice president of India, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Abdul Basit, former high commissioner of Pakistan to India, Ashok Bhan, A. S. Dulat, Abdul Rehman Malik, prominent Pakistani politician, Farooq Abdullah, Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, A.M. Watali, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Mani Shankar Aiyar, M. M. Ansari, Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami, I. D. Khajuria, Syed Nazir Gilani, Hamid Mir, Salman Khurshid, Talat Masood, Yashwant Sinha, Bilal Bashir Bhat, Sudheendra Kulkarni, Javed Jabbar, and others.
The book “In Pursuit of Peace: Improving Indo-PakRelations” is expected to hit the stands in the month of January next year, following its release in a grand function with participants from both countries India and Pakistan, readers can pre-book their copy at opshah.shah@gmail[dot]com
Lauding the efforts of O P Shah, a veteran journalist based in Kashmir, pleading anonymity, stated, “Today when both the countries are celebrating their 75th Independence anniversaries, the lack of cordial relationship has led the massive damage on several fronts.” He hoped the book would be helpful in the improvement of bilateral relations between India and Pakistan.
Pertinently, O.P Shah has a vast experience of diplomacy; he had been a frequent visitor to Kashmir for the last three decades. His main works in Kashmir and New Delhi is conducting seminars, conferences, webinars, and meetings with the participation of different opinions of people. He is perhaps the only diplomat who engaged himself in diplomacy in Kashmir post-Abrogation of Article 370, at a time when most of the frequent diplomats/activists from outside Kashmir proffered to remain out of the picture.
