February 6, 2003	Thursday	Zul Hijjah 4,1423

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ISLAMABAD, Feb 5: Terming Kashmir a nuclear flash point and a potential threat to peace in South Asia, the literary organizations of Pakistan on Wednesday called upon the Indian leadership to realize the gravity of the situation and come with new initiatives for peaceful solution of the dispute.

Pakistan Academy of Letters, Halqae Arbabe Zouq, Idara Saqafate Pakistan, Kashmir Academy, Muzaffarabad, Zaiwiya and Roudad held a protest march from Radio Pakistan up to the Indian High Commission where they handed over a memorandum to the high- ups. The march was led by renowned poet and intellectual Dr Inamul Haq Javed.

The memorandum said the people of the Indian-occupied Kashmir were facing the worst human rights violations at the hands of the occupation troops. The memorandum urged the world community to take a serious notice of the increasing violations of human rights in Kashmir and force India to stop state terrorism in occupied Kashmir.

The memorandum said South Asia had reached the brink of a nuclear holocaust as a result of the lingering Kashmir issue and peace-loving people round the globe should take cognizance of the matter.