MIRPUR: Azad Jammu & Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan Tuesday emphasized the need of granting due respect and promotion to the rule of law at the international level to resolve the festering disputes.
He stated this while speaking on ‘Global Governance and World Peace’ at the Global Futures Department at the University of Lancaster city of United Kingdom, a message received here said. released to the media here.
The President said instead of power politics, the new world order should help tyrannize people in Kashmir and Palestine.
The President said that in the absence of a dialogue process on Kashmir between India and Pakistan, as well as total inaction by the United Nations, there was a serious risk of a devastating war between India and Pakistan because both were nuclear states. The President said that there should be a clear distinction between self-determination and secessionism. “Kashmir he said is a case of self-determination”.
The President Masood Khan said that the global governance needed new legal and institutional tools to deal with asymmetric warfare, terrorism, violent extremism, intrastate and regional conflicts, and achieve Sustainable Development Goals. “To maintain peace and stability, global governance and international law should be made a global common”, he said.
Sustainable development, he said, provided the way forward. He said collective efforts should be made to make climate change a priority and make our planet more responsive to environmental challenges. Earlier, President Masood Khan met the Pro Chancellor of the Lancaster University, Dr. Steve Bradley, and invited him to visit AJK. He discussed ways to link up AJK’s universities and the Lancaster University through exchange of faculties and students especially in the disciplines of economics, management, and environment.
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