PAKISTAN has constituted a new committee laden with officials from Army and ISI to formulate "a doable and sustainable India-Kashmir policy", Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz has said.
The panel consisting of senior officials from the ministries of defence, interior and information, the Military Operations Directorate, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) will now brief two other committee that had been formed to look into Kashmir affairs.
Speaking about the status of the implementation of policy guidelines, given by a Senate committee of the whole house, the prime minister's adviser on foreign affairs said the committee was headed by Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry and could co-opt other members if required, according to a report in Dawn.
Aziz said that a committee had also been formed to prepare fact sheets, counter India's "propaganda campaign" and design a media strategy to continuously highlight the Kashmiri issue. This committee also includes representatives from the ministries of defence, foreign affairs and information technology, as well as members of the Military Operations Directorate, ISI and IB, Dawn said.
Aziz said that the Ministry of Information Technology had been asked to prepare a comprehensive strategy to highlight the Kashmir issue via social media.
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