Delegates belonging to different walks of life from both India and Pakistan are optimistic about normalisation of relations between Pakistan and India.
Talking to PPI on the sidelines of the convention, the delegates expressed the hope that people-to-people contacts would bring both the countries close to each other and benefit the peoples of one of the most backward regions of the world.
Ranita Chatterjee, a member of the Indian delegation, said there should be more exchanges of cultural delegations of both the counties, so that people could get to know each other’s traditions and values.
Ninghoya Meete from the Indian state of Minipur said he had found Pakistanis quite unlike what they had been made out to be by the Indian media.
Iqbal Haider, a former PPP senator, termed the peace moot a positive development and was hopeful that it would help defuse the tension between the two countries.—PPI