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JJ stresses need

for defusing

tension between

Pakistan, India

RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: The Adviser to the Chief Executive on Media and National Affairs, Javed Jabbar, on Thursday stressed need for defusing the tension between India and Pakistan.

He was addressing the conference on "peace, goodwill and fellowship" organised by the Rotary International.

He urged the international media to play their due role for the resolution of the occupied Kashmir issue.

He said India made all out efforts to term Pakistan a terrorist state but failed in its baseless propaganda.

He said terrorism is everywhere in the world. Every state has extremists, even the US has them but that does not make a country a terrorist state. The countable thing is that how a government deals with terrorism.

He gave full support to the press freedom and assured that the government would promote the freedom of press. He said that the government had not imposed any restriction on the media, rather it took different steps for maximum press freedom.

He discussed the possibility of nuclear war between India and Pakistan. He said the sub-continent was not the zone to be referred as the most dangerous as the heads of the governments of the two states have clearly said that there was no prospects of nuclear war in the region.

He said that government could not hold elections as the government was involved in computerising the voters list.

Earlier, the chairman of the conference, Carlo Revizza while highlighting the role of Rotary International, said that it has made the adversaries to sit together and develop the feelings of fellowship.