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INDIA / J&K

Mr. Mia Altaf, former minister for Health in J&K, India

Mr. Maulvi Iftikar Ansari, Senior Member, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Srinagar; President, All Jammu and Kashmir Shia Association [formerly: Cabinent Minister with various portfolios; Leader of opposition in Congress (I), 1983-85]

Prof. Noor Ahmad Baba, Professor & Head, Dept. of Political Science , University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K, India

Mr. Jatendra Bakshi, Secretary General, Jammu & Kashmir Institute for Peace, Justice and Democracy; President, Action Committee for Return of Migrants, Satwari, Jammu (J&K), India; President, J&K Society of Technocrats; Secretary General, Jammu Consumers Council [formerly: Chief Engineer, J&K State in Jammu & Kashmir government]

Ms. Hameedah Nayeem Khan Bano, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K, India; Founder member, Women Waging Peace, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Chairperson, Kashmir Centre for Social and Development Studies (KCSDS)

Ms. Sushobha Barve, Executive Secretary and Chief Program Coordinator, Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Mr. Ved Bhasin, Chairman, Kashmir Times Group of Newspapers; President, J&K Institute of Peace, Justice and Democracy, Jammu

Mr. Happymon Jacob, Lecturer, Centre for Strategic & Regional Studies, University of Jammu, J&K, India; Visiting Fellow, Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi

Mrs. Binoo Joshi, Correspondent, BBC, New Delhi, India

Mr. Asgar Ali Karbalaie, Chairman, Kargil Hill Council

Prof. Radha Kumar, Professor, Mandela Centre for Conflict Resolution, New Delhi, India; Trustee, Delhi Policy Group

Mr. Bilal Gani Lone, APHC

Mr. Sajjad Gani Lone, Jammu & Kashmir People’s Conference, Srinagar, J&K

Prof. Amitabh Mattoo, Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu, Jammu, J&K, India; Member, Prime Minister’s Task Force on Global Strategic Developments; Professor of Disarmament Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi  [formerly: Member, National Security Advisory Board]

Hon. Mehbooba Mufti, Member of Parliament and President, Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party, India

Mr. Sonam (Pinto) W. Narboo, Member, JK Legislative Assembly (Ladakh), E-mail: ladakh@hotelshambhala.com

Amb. Gopalaswami Parthasarathy, Visiting Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India; Senior Fellow, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, and Member, Executive Committee, Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi, Member, Policy Advisory Group, Ministry of External Affairs; Member, Editorial Board, Indian Defense Review

Mr. Abdul Rahim Rather, M.L.A. (Leader of the Opposition--Lok Sabha), Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly, Jammu, J&K [formerly: Minister in J&K)

Hakim Mohammed Yasin Shah, Minister for Transport, J&K Government, Srinagar; Chairman, Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Front, Srinagar

Mr. Nirmal K. Singh, President, BJP, Jammu, J&K, India; Professor of History, University of Jammu

M.Y. Tarigami, Member J&K Legislative Assembly, Srinagar; State Secretary CPI(M)

Mr. Abdul Ghani Ganai (Wakil), Senior Vice President, JK Congress Party

Prof. Siddiq Wahid, Vice Chancellor, Islamic University at Awantipora, J&K State, India; Director, All J&K Waqf Board; Member of Governing Board, People’s Convention on Environment and Development, India; Member, India Forum

 

 

PAKISTAN  /  AJK

Dr. Rifaat Hussein, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo, Sri Lanka

Amb. Aziz Ahmad Khan, former HC Pakistan to India, New Delhi; former Additional Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Islamabad, Pakistan

Mr. M. Ismail Khan, Development & Governance Specialist; Elected Representative (Asia Pacific), Board of Directors of the Mountain Forum; Team Leader, CPS–CI, Asian Development Bank; Resident Mission Pakistan

Mr. Muhammad Abdul Razzaq Khan (MARK) Khaleeque, President of Jammu Kashmir National Awami Party (JKNAP), Muzaffarabad, Azad J&K 

Mr. Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan, All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference, and former President and Prime Minister AJK

Col. (ret) Muhammad Farooq, Advisor to ex-Prime Minister of AJK, Sardar M. Abdul Qayyum Khan [formerly: Chairman, Prime Minister Team, AJK; Director General, Civil Defence, AJK]

Muhammad Ashraf, Attendant to Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan

Mr. Sardar Usman Ali Khan, Central Coordinator, All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference Youth Wing, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tel.: (+92-51) 710 8544, Fax: (+92-51) 442 8336, Mobile: (+92-321) 856 8001 or (+92-300) 956 1144, E-mail: sardarusman@hotmail.com

Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Talat Masood, Independent Columnist, Commentator and Analyst, Islamabad, Pakistan [formerly: retired Lt. General; Secretary, Defence Production Division, Ministry of Defence; Chairman, Pakistan Ordnance Factories Board 

Mr. Ghulam Qadir Shah, Speaker, AJ&K Legislative Assembly; Secretary General, AJ&K Muslim Conference; Chairman, Kashmir Institute of International Relations [formerly: Minister for Information, Social Welfare, Finance & Development AJ&K Government; Parliamentary Secretary, AJ&K Government; Chairman Standing Committee of Rules & Privileges, AJ&K Legislative Assembly]

Dr. Sheikh G.R Waleed Rasool, Director; Research and Publication, Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR); Ambassador of Peace ( Universal Peace Federation); Member APHC; Secretary General, Human Rights Commission; Research Fellow, University of AJ&K; Representative Kashmir American Council Washington; Columnist The Daily Nawa I Waqt / Daily Jammu & Kashmir §         [formerly: Researcher, Writer, Producer PTv; Chief Editor; Kashmir Insight; Columnist “Liberty International’]

Prof. Shafique-ur-Rehman Kashmiri, Professor of Botany, and Director of the Institute of Kashmir Studies, University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

Arif Shahid, Jammu and Kashmir National Liberation Front

Amb. Najmuddin Shaikh, retired Pakistan Foreign Service Officer; Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad; Senior Vice President, Karachi Council of Foreign Relations; Columnist for Dawn, Karachi 

 

PUGWASH

Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary-General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milan, Italy; Director, Program on Disarmament and International  Security, Landau Network – Centro Volta, Como, Italy [formerly: Secretary General, Union of Italian Scientists for Disarmament (USPID)]

Ms. Claire Galez, Director, Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS), Geneva, Switzerland; Research Associate, Centre for Asian Studies (Geneva University – GIIS/GIDS)

Dr. Peter Jones, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ms. Claudia Vaughn, Program Coordinator, Pugwash Conferences, via della Lungara 10, I-00165 Rome