British High Commissioner meets PC chief
Sajad Lone blames India for undermining dialogue process

Srinagar, May 13: Blaming India for having undermined the dialogue process, Jammu and Kashmir Peoples’ Conference chairman Sajad Gani Lone today lamented lack of seriousness on part of India vis-à-vis the Kashmir issue. Interacting with British High Commissioner Richard Stag and his Political Secretary who called on Lone Tuesday, Peoples’ Conference chairman while highlighting the essence of dialogue process as an institutional mode of resolving conflict and an alternative to the violent mode of resolution, told them that the Indian state has trivialized the institution of dialogue by starting a dialogue process in Kashmir and subsequently abandoning it.  “Dialogue is a sacred institution of the civilized world and has been used in conflicts across the world, but the Indian state has not only eroded the sanctity of this intuition in Kashmir, but also set a bad precedence for conflict resolution processes in other parts of the world,” Lone told the British visitors.
“If Kashmir is once again pushed in to a state of violent espousal, the Indian state would have a direct role in thrusting violence onto the people of Kashmir,” Lone said as he impressed upon the visitors that the international community had a moral obligation to see for itself how India was undermining the institution of dialogue.  Stressing the role of the international community in ensuring the resolution of the Kashmir issue, Sajad Lone explained the rationale behind their vision document - “Achievable Nationhood” .
Asserting that the document was published in response to the repeated assertions of the Prime Minister of India pertaining to absence of new concepts and ideas from Kashmir in the new era of flexibility, Lone said the seriousness of the Indian state can be gauged by the fact that 18 months after the release of the document, the Indian state is yet to officially even acknowledge the existence of this document