“It is quite fair to say that the people of Kashmir must be the masters of their own destiny,” said Mr. Richard Armitage, while talking to Mr. Ali. S. Khan, Executive Director, Kashmiri Scandinavian Council. Mr. Armitage was the Deputy Secretary of State of the United States during the administration of President George W. Bush.
Mr. Armitage has always had a vision that Kashmir conflict needs to be resolved. He expressed this view during an interview with ‘News Hours’ on June 10, 2002 when he said, “Well, we've had 55 years of periodic flare-ups between India and Pakistan. I think that the highest order on the agenda is to have a regional de-escalation in terms of al-Qaida and terrorist presence, and terrorism as a way to accomplish political objectives. And after that has happened both in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, then I think the regional situation will be much better and be much more conducive to a logical discussion of the future of Kashmir.”
"We need to understand what – where Pakistan’s interests are, how does Pakistan see its future and, where certainly those shared interests combine, I think we need to help each other achieve that.
Oslo: Norwegian parliament has raised the issue of existence of unidentified mass graves in Kashmir and vowed that Norway will continue to monitor developments as the challenges of the human rights situation in Kashmir develops. 
Oslo: The discovery of scores of unidentified bodies and unmarked graves has just unmasked the fake and fictitious democracy of India and urges United Nations to take a strong notice on the gross human rights violations in occupied Jammu & Kashmir.
Oslo, March 29 (KMS): The Executive Director of Kashmiri Scandinavian Council, Sardar Ali Shahnawaz Khan has appreciated the decision of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani to visit India and witness the semi final of Cricket World Cup in Mohali on the invitation of his Indian counterpart.
Sardar Ali Shahnawaz Khan, Executive Director Kashmiri Scandinavian Council Norway welcomed the resumption of India-Pakistan reengagement while speaking to the 5th Global Discourse on Kashmir in the European Parliament in Brussels organized by the All Party Group for Kashmir in the European Parliament, and the Kashmir Centre, EU today. The 2011 discourse aims to build on previous successes and to seek meaningful progress on all issues particularly on Kashmir conflict. He said that the sustained and long term engagement between New Delhi and Islamabad along with representatives of Kashmiri people is an indispensable need to solve all outstanding disputes in the region through peaceful means.
Dr Manmohan Singh once again urged pro freedom camp to join dialogue process with an objective to resolve all outstanding issues . His dialogue initiative has been welcomed by every sane person in Jammu & Kashmir and elsewhere in South Asia. It seems Dr Singh is very much concerned about the growing resentment in Kashmir. Dr Singh and his cohorts in Delhi are very keen to initiate a dialogue process but what he said in clear words is “under the constitutional frame work”.
