Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Pak-Afghan journalists’ moot today

PESHAWAR: A two-day conference of journalists from Pakistan and Afghanistan began on Monday to discuss ways and means to bring peace back to Pashtun areas on both sides of the Durand Line.
“The best solution will be if it is discovered locally,” Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Masood Kausar said in inaugural speech at “Cross-Border Media: Strengthening Peace and Dialogue” at Area Study Centre, University of Peshawar. It is the first time such conference is taking place in Peshawar and delegates from both sides will deliberate on ways and means to rid areas along the porous border between the two countries of militancy and help bring peace back. “We should be inward-looking and solution has to come from within,” the governor said, adding that terrorism taking place now was not indigenous and it was brought from outside. “This menace of terrorism has come from outside. We ought to get freedom from it.” The governor also made it public for the first time that he would have been a journalist had he not opted for the LEGAL profession. “Had I not been a lawyer I would have been a journalist,” he said. Kausar said it was good that journalists and civil society from Afghanistan and Pakistan were meeting and they could contribute to achieving the objective – bringing peace to the region. Hamidullah Zazai, director of media development of a non-governmental organisation, Mediothek, which organised the conference in collaboration with its Peshawar office, told the audience that Pakistan and Afghanistan should sit together to jointly find solution to their common problems. staff report

Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk

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