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Saturday 21 September 2019

Daily Diary (DD) - Day 264 of 2019

2320hrs:

All roads lead to Sharda....but via Jammu and Khuiratta....This programme is from the 18th (of September) but I only got to watch it today. In this age of instant and multiple communication channels, we can quite easily miss the most important conversations in our midst:



What we can take from this programme which had such a provocative headline:




"Our emotions are the same - aar aur paar" 
(Here & there X LOC)

"Sharda - building bridges"

Ravinder Pandita 
Founder: Save Sharda Committee Kashmir Regd 

While watching this programme I felt we all in AJK or POK should watch this. I put the following quote to Pandita Ji and asked if it reflected his message on News 18 Urdu TV:

"There is little initiative or time that the government's of India and Pakistan have for re-opening Sharda. That work has been and will continue to be conducted by cross LOC civil society. People to people contact is a civil, peaceful and effective means of public policy. There is a peace narrative and a war narrative. A peace narrative depends on the re-opening of Sharda to the aspiring citizens of J & K."

He replied that "Sharda is a bridge builder.....there is no scope of extremism on this land of Rishis & sufis. Divine intervention is needed to bring back the much needed peace."

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