By IANS
Jammu : A peace institute in the US has commissioned a report on the confidence building measures in troubled Kashmir as part of its efforts to highlight the issue and its possible resolution.
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP), a US think tank that highlights peace initiatives across the globe, has also commissioned a book by Wajahat Habibullah, chief information commissioner of India, who has been a bureaucrat in Jammu and Kashmir.
David Smock, vice president of USIP in Washington made this disclosure while interacting with Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
Sayeed, who is patron of the ruling coalition partner Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is currently in the US.
During his US visit, Sayeed interacted with leaders and also delivered lectures, focusing on the need to pace up the India-Pakistan dialogue on Kashmir as also increase the level of the internal dialogue and confidence building measures.
According to a PDP statement issued from Washington, Smock has said USIP has been working on Kashmir for a long time and it has already got two reports – one by Habibullah and another by Shahid Javed Burki, former minister of Pakistan – published on the issue.
He said presently the institute is in the process of publishing a book by Habibullah and is also sponsoring a report on how to make the confidence building process more practical.
Habibullah has written two reports on Kashmir for the USIP, “The Kashmir problem and its resolution” and “The Political Economy of Kashmir, conflict and opportunities”.