[Reader-list] {KAC-LIST} Final Program Kashmir Conference Washington, D.C.

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Ninth International Kashmir Peace Conference
Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Rayburn House Office Building, B 338
(Nearest Metro: Capitol South on Orange/Blue Line)

8.30 a.m.		Registration

9.00 a.m.		Inauguration

Chair:		Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai
Executive Director
Kashmiri American Council/Kashmir Center

Congressional hosts:		Congressional hosts
				
09.30 a.m.		Session # 1
India-Pakistan Peace Process:
Various Perspectives

Chair: 			Ms. Karen Parker, Esq.
Chairperson, Association of Humanitarian Lawyers.

Speakers:

Ms. Karen Parker, Esq.	Chairperson, Association of Humanitarian Lawyers

Mr. Bharat Bhushan 		Noted Journalist & Writer, New Delhi

Mr. Ahsan Iqbal		Federal Minister of Education, Islamabad

Amb. Hussain Haqqani 	Pakistani Ambassador to the United States

Ms. Farzana Raja 		Member, Pakistan National Assembly

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq 	Chairman, All Parties Hurriyet Conference

11.00 a.m.		Session # 2
India-Pakistan Relations:
Breaking the Deadlock over Kashmir

Chair: 	Prof. Richard Shapiro, California Institute of Integral Studies                                         

Speakers:	

Dr. Rodney Jones, 	President, Policy Architects International

Senator (Ms) Aneesa Zeb Tahirkheli	 	Senate of Pakistan

Justice Rajinder Sachar 	Former Chief Justice, New Delhi High Court

Dr. Hameeda Bano, 	Department of English, University of Kashmir, Srinagar

Professor Nazir A. Shawl 	Executive Director, Justice Foundation/Kashmir Center, London

Amb. Yusuf Buch, 	Former Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General

Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan	Prime Minister, Azad Kashmir

1.00 p.m.	Lunch break

2.00 p.m.	Session # 3
Kashmir: Dimensions in Human Rights & Justice

Chair:  	Mr. Jatender Bakhshi, President, J&K Forum for Peace & Reconciliation

Speakers:

Prof. Angana Chatterji, 			Scholar-activist

Maj. General ? Jamshaid Ayaz Khan, 	President, Institute of Regional studies, Islamabad

Mr. Zahid G. Mohammad			Columnist & Author

Ms. Victoria Schofield, 			Author & Writer, London

Dr. Taqdees Geelani, 				President HOPE & AJK University

Mr. Ved Bhasin, 				Editor-in-Chief, Kashmir Times, Jammu

Mr. Farooq Ahmed Tahir, 			Deputy Speaker, Azad Kashmir Assembly

Dr. Waleed Rasool	Center for Peace & Conflict Resolution, Muzzafarabad

Barrister Majeed Tramboo,    	Executive Director, ICHR/Kashmir Center, Brussels

4.30 p.m.	Concluding remarks: 

    Dr. Farhan Chak, Durham University, England


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Friday, August 1, 2008
(Please note that the conference on Friday
will take place at a different location)

1111 Sixteenth Street, N.W. Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20036
Inter-section of 16th Street & L Street, N.W.
(Nearest Metro: Farragut West on Orange/Blue Lines and Farragut North on Red Line)

09.00 a.m.		Session # 4
Resolving Kashmir Dispute:
Learning From Various Models

Chair: 	Barrister Majeed Tramboo, Executive Director, Kashmir Center, Brussels

Speakers: 	

Mr. Wajahat Qazi, 			Author & Free Lance writer

Pandit Jatinder Bakhshi, 	President, J&K Forum for Peace & Reconciliation

Mr. Zahid G. Mohammad, 		Columnist, Writer, Srinagar

Ms. Karen Parker, Esq., 	Chairperson, Association of Humanitarian Lawyers, San Francisco

Dr. Taqdees Geelani,	Department of English, Azad Kashmir University

Dr. Waleed Rasool, 	Department of Conflict Resolution, University of Azad Kashmir

10.30 a.m.		Session # 5
CBM?s Between India & Pakistan:
Impact on Kashmir

Chair: 	Prof. Nazir Shawl, Executive Director, Justice Foundation, London

Speakers:

Professor Bishnu Poudel	President Emeritus, National Advisory Council for South Asian Affairs 

Mr. Altaf Qadri			Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front

Ms. Victoria Schofield 		Author and writer, London

Mr. Zahoor Wani 			Attorney-at-law

Mr. M. Ismail Khan 	Expert on Media, Public Policy and Development, Skardu, Northern Areas

Dr. Hameeda Bano, 	Department of English, Kashmir University, Srinagar

Mr. Ahsan Iqbal	Federal Minister of Education, Islamabad

Dr. Ghulam N. Mir	President, World Kashmir Freedom Movement, Ohio

12.00 p.m.		Lunch Break

01.30 p.m.		Session # 6

Kashmir: A Way Forward

Chair: 		Mr. Ved Bhasin, Editor-in-Chief, Kashmir Times

Speakers:

Prof. Richard Shapiro 	California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California

Senator Muhammad Said	 	Senate of Pakistan

Senator Liaquat Ali Bangulzai	Senate of Pakistan

Ms. Farzana Raja 			Member, Pakistan National Assembly

Mr. Bharat Bhushan, 			Journalist and Writer

Amb. Yusuf Buch			Former Senior Advisor to the UN Secretary General
Senator Aneesa Zeb Tahirkheli, 	Senate of Pakistan

Mr. Farooq Ahmed Tahir		Deputy Speaker, Azad Kashmir Assembly

Mr. Raja Muzaffar 			Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front

3.00 p.m. 		Session # 7

Respondents
Chair:	

Justice Rajinder Sachar, 		Former Chief Justice of New Delhi

Gen. Jamshaid Ayaz Khan 		President, Institute of Regional studies, Islamabad

Mr. Muhammad Malik,                  	Free Kashmir campaign

Abdul Rashid Turabi			President, Jamaat-e-Islami, Azad Kashmir

Prof. Wasiullah Khan			Vice Chancellor, East West University, Chicago

Prof. Angana Chatterji		Scholar-activist

Dr. Farhan Chak			Durham University, England

Dr. M Khawaja Ashraf 		Pakistani American Congress, California

Sardar Niaz				Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party

Sardar Ishaq				Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front

Dr. Nisar Choudhary			Pakistani American Congress

Sardar Irshad Khan			Jammu Kashmri Peoples Party

Mr. Javaid Rathore			Peoples Party of Pakistan

Mr. Tahir Iqbal			Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party

Hafiz Mohammad sabir		Brooklyn Community Center

Mr.  Malik Nadeem  Abid		Kashmir Mission

5.00 p.m.		Conclusion  

Mr. David Wolfe, 	South Asia International Human Security, Emerging Markets and Risk Management Specialist

Updated @ July 29th at 7.30 p.m.