IndiaPakistan Conference – A Roadmap towards Peace
Auditorium, India International Centre, New Delhi
10th - 12th January, 2010
10th January:
09.00 – 10.00 Registration
10:00 – 10.30 Welcome & Inaugural
I. K. Gujral (Former Prime Minister of India) & Kuldip Nayar (Chairperson, Organizing Committee & Veteran Journalist)
10.30 – 1145 A Road map towards Peace
Aitzaz Ahsan (Former President, Supreme Court Bar Association, Pakistan)
Mehbooba Mufti (President – People’s Democratic Party)
Admiral L Ramdas (Former Chief of Naval Staff, Indian Navy)
Mani Shankar Aiyar (Former Union Minister)
Chair: Seema Mustafa (Senior Journalist)
11.45 – 12.30 Questions, Comments, Discussions
12.30 –13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Peace and Security in South Asia
Iqbal Haider (Former Law Minister, Pakistan)
Salman Haider(Former Foreign Secretary, India)
Kamal Chenoy(Prof. of International Relations, JNU)
Chair: A H Nayar (Physicist & peace activist, Islamabad)
15.00 – 16.00 Questions, Comments, Discussions
16.00 – 16.30 Tea
18.00 – 20.00 Book release “Bridging Partition: People's initiatives for peace between India and Pakistan”at India Islamic Cultural Center
Edited by Smitu Kothari, Zia Mian, kamla Bhasin, A.H. Nayar and Mohd. Tahseen
11th January :
09.30 – 11.45 Issue of Autonomy: Balochistan
Siraj MalikAkbar (Senior Journalist, Quetta, Pakistan)
Bizenjo Hasil Khan, (Senator, Balochistan, Pakistan)
10.30-11.45 Issueof Autonomy: Kashmir
Asma Jehangir(Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, UN special rapporteur on freedom of religion & belief)
Yasin Malik(Leader, JKLF)
Sajjad Lone (President, Peoples Conference)
Chair: Rajendra Sacchar (Retd. Chief Justice, Delhi High Court & PUCL)
11.45- 12.30 Questions, Comments, Discussions
12.30 –13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Climate Changeand its impact on Indo-Pak Relations
Farooq Tariq (Spokesperson, Pakistan Labour Party)
Dr. Vandana Shiva (Founder, Navdanya)
Dr. Abid Suleri (Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan)
Amb Chandrashekhar Dasgupta (TERI)*
14.30-15.00 Chair : Lalita Ramdas (Chair of the Green Peace International Board)
Questions, Comments, Discussions
15.00 – 16.15 Trade as an instrument of peace
Muchkund Dubey (Former Foreign Secretary, India)
RaviWig (Chairman SAARC, ASSOCHAM)
Akbar Zaidi (Leading Pakistani Economist)
Chair: Dr. Biswajit Dhar (Director General, Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries)
16.15-17.00 Questions, Comments, Discussions
17.00 Tea
12th January :
09.30 – 11.30 Militancy, joint mechanism and role of the US
Amitabh Mattoo (Prof. International Politics, JNU & Member of the National Knowledge Commission)
Ayesha Siddiqa (Security Analyst, Strategic Affairs Columnist, Pakistan)
Rajiv Sikri (Former Secretary, MEA, India)
Sajjad Lone (President, Peoples Conference)
11.30-12.30 Chair : I.A. Rehman (Human Rights Commission of Pakistan)
Questions, Comments, Discussions
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.45 Media & Culture in War and Peace
B Murlidhar Reddy(Journalist , The Hindu , based in Sri Lanka)
Liaqat Ali Toor(Journalist, Associated Press of Pakistan, based in Delhi)
Kuldip Nayar (Veteran Journalist)
Mahesh Bhatt (Film Maker)
Madeeha Gauhar (Theatre Director and Women Rights’ Activist, Pakistan)
Chair: Ved Bhasin (Editor, Kashmir Times)
14.45-15.30 Questions, Comments, Discussions
15.30 – 17.00 Declaration & plan of action
Chair : Kamla Bhasin (Peace, Human & Women Rights activist)
Organisations :
ANHAD, Centre for Policy Analysis, COVA, Focus on the Global, South, India, HBF, Hind-Pak Dosti Manch, Peace Mumbai, PIPFPD, SAHR, SANGAT & SAPA.
*Awaiting confirmation.