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PU PSC organizes seminar
PU PSC organizes seminar


LAHORE: (Tuesday, February 9, 2021): Punjab University Pakistan Study Centre has organized a national webinar on "Kashmir: Past, Present and Future" in connection with the Kashmir Solidarity Day. Prof. Dr. Amra Raza, Director, Pakistan Study Centre/Dean, Faculty of Arts & Humanities welcomed the guests and participants and shed light on the crucial issue. She said that the objective of the webinar was to show solidarity with our brethren in Indian Occupied Kashmir, protest the atrocities, cruelty and violence being meted out to Kashmiris and highlight the clampdown on reports and statistics about human rights violations in Indian Occupied Kashmir. Dr. Ahmad Ejaz conducted the proceedings on the occasion. Dr. Khushboo Ijaz, Assistant Professor, Kinnaird College Women University highlighted the key features of the issue, mentioning the prolonged lockdown and the human rights violations in the valley. She said that there had been shortage of food and other basic necessities of life in the valley and the means of communication with the rest of the world had been cut off. Moreover, she stressed that the purchase of property by non-Kashmiris would negatively affect the demography of the area. Dr Abrar Ahmad, Assistant Professor, University of Education mentioned the brutal killing of innocent Kashmiris and inhuman conditions faced by the people of valley. He also discussed several formulas for the solution of the issue. PhD and M. Phil. students of the centre also participated in the discussion and presented their views regarding the Indian forces atrocities and suppression in Kashmir.