seeking endorsement for india pakistan peace
Sandeep Pandey
Resolution of 12 June, 2026 online meeting between activists of India and Pakistan
1. India and Pakistan must revive the peace process. There is no reason why Pakistan, which has been mediating peace between US and Iran, and India, whose PM is expected by some world leaders to convince Russia to end the war on Ukraine, should not talk to each other.
2. Reactivate SAARC. It is essential to better cooperation and progress of South Asia as a whole. The SAARC framework will also allow a space to sort out bilateral issues on the sidelines. A very important platform of armed forces veterans, initiated by late Nirmala Deshpande, which advocated for dialogue, the India Pakistan Soldiers Initiative for Peace must also be revived.
3. Travel restrictions between India and Pakistan should be relaxed. Kartarpur Sahib corridor should be reopened. India should open a corridor for Ajmer Sharif dargah. Travel of Pakistani citizens seeking to come to India for medical treatment should be made easier. Delhi-Lahore and Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus services and Jodhpur-Karachi train service should be resumed. A new bus service between Ahmedabad and Karachi must be started through Kutch, which will immensely help the fisherfolk who get caught on the wrong side and face an uphill task to return.
4. The jingoistic Wagha-Attari evening retreat must be replaced by an evening of friendly get together in a secure enclosed area without the requirement of passport-visa, especially providing an opportunity to divided families to meet. Such facility should be created across all borders, Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan, Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan and Gujarat.
5. Free trade should be allowed between India and Pakistan. This should include trade with Afghanistan.
6. A no-war pact should be signed between India and Pakistan, with definition of war including support to insurgencies and terrorist acts across the border (A draft prepared by peace activists from both sides is ready and could be taken up for consideration by the two governments).
7. Just like military action is not a solution to the problems between India and Pakistan, the nuclear weapons are no weapons of war (in the words of late Admiral L. Ramdas, former Indian Navy Chief). No nuclear weapon has been used in any war after the world witnessed its devastation in 1945. India and Pakistan must endeavour to create a South Asia Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, similar to the UN recognised five zones which already exist covering a majority of the countries of the world.
8. Siachen must be demilitarised to save lives and environment, given that no shot has been fired here since 2003. No purpose is being served by keeping troops at such punishing altitudes by both sides.
9. No natural resources, especially river water, should be weaponised.
10. There should be no cross border internet blockages.
11. The people-to-people level peace and friendship process, which has set the agenda for governments in the past, must continuously engage with political leadership of the two countries.
12. Creative engagement of different sections of societies, especially students, youth and artists, from both countries should be encouraged so that divisive myths built because of separation can melt and an environment of trust, friendship, camaraderie and peace can grow. It is a punishment to two people who are culturally integrated to be artificially kept apart. The experience shows that long distance enmity gives way to warmth as soon as they come face to face in any part of the world. Friendship between people of India and Pakistan is natural, enmity is cultivated. Let nature prevail.
Parvez Hoodbhoy
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Radha Kumar
A. H. Nayyar
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O. P. Shah
Beena Sarwar
Mani Shankar Aiyar
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Kavita Srivastava
Arudhati Dhuru
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