[Peace] CF:CIMIC Seminar:Oct17-Is Kashmir Really Strategic to India and Pakistan? MN Mirza-ACDIS and QAU

[Irfan Ahmad]

>  "In The Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful"
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>CIMIC WEEKLY SEMINAR
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>Is Kashmir Really Strategic to India and Pakistan?
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>Nasrullah Mirza
>Fullbright Scholar, ACDIS, UIUC; and Quaid-a-Azam University, Islamabad
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>Discussion Follows
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>8:00- 9:30M @ CIMIC
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>Friday, Oct. 17 InshaAllah
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>ALL INVITED
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>Refreshments Served
>Babysitting provided

   PS. Conservative dress recommended

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>Nasrullah Mirza is currently Fullbright Scholar at the Arms Control and 
>Disarmament and International Security (ACDIS), UIUC;
>and faculty at the Department of Defence & Strategic Studies, Quaid-e-Azam 
>University (QAU), Islamabad. He has been a visiting lecturer at the 
>Foreign Services Academy and National Defence College Islamabad. He earned 
>Advanced International Diploma in Conflict Resolution, Uppsala University, 
>Sweden; M.Phil. degree in International Relations and M.Sc. in Defence and 
>Strategic Studies, QAU, Islamabad. At present he is conducting doctoral 
>research under Pre-Doctoral Fulbright Fellowship at ACDIS.
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>AREA OF RESEARCH INTEREST
>South Asian Security: Nuclear Proliferation, Arms Control, Conflict 
>Analysis and Resolution, Comparative Defence and Strategic Policies of 
>Great Powers, India and Pakistan, Environmental Conflicts and Water Issues
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>Nasrullah Mirza can be reached at: mnmirza at uiuc.edu
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>Abstract: Understanding Kashmir Conflict
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>South Asia is not only politically instable, economically fragile and 
>militarily conflict-prone region but also falling rapidly into ecological 
>disaster. India and Pakistan have a long history of fighting over river 
>waters originating from Kashmir territory. Particularly, with the 
>nuclearisation of South Asia Kashmir has become a potential nuclear flash 
>point and looming water scarcity may trigger another war over Kashmir. Why 
>India and Pakistan are fighting over Kashmir since their inception as 
>independent states is still not clear. The nature of the Kashmir dispute 
>has been projected differently and there are various connotations and 
>viewpoints. The common perception is that even if Kashmir is resolved 
>there would be no peace between India and Pakistan. This is the central 
>question of this study:
>    * Is Kashmir a border issue?
>    * Is Kashmir a political issue?
>    * Is Kashmir an ideological issue?
>    * Is Kashmir a territorial issue?
>· Why Kashmir’s territory is so dear to India &Pakistan?
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>Answer to the above questions is mandatory to discover the nature of the 
>Kashmir issue.
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