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Envoy McDonald backs Kartarpur corridor
WSN Network

DERA BABA NANAK: Legendry global peace maker and a career diplomat for over 40 years, John W. McDonald visited the site of proposed Kartarpur Sahib Corridor at the International border between Dera Baba Nanak (India) and Narowal (Pakistan) and not only backed the corridor demand but also said the region should be termed a "Peace Zone".

Associated with United Nations for 16 years and now heading the Institute of Multi-Track Diplomacy (IMTD), mandated for peace building the world over, John W. McDonald is credited for Srinagar–Muzzafarabad peace bus service idea.

Jathedar Kuldip Singh Wadala and his associates welcomed McDonald. The envoy was impressed by the fact that not just Sikhs but people from all communities were enamoured by the sanctity attached to the corridor idea.

McDonald was accompanied by Dr. Eileen Borris and Mrs. Elizabeth Murray, his colleagues in IMTD. Journalist T.S.Maini is known to have persuaded McDonald to visit Kartarpur.

McDonald was shocked to see the barbed fence on Indo-Pak border which ran a high voltage electric current. "It is cruel than the Berlin Wall, " he said, and underlined the great trade potential in Kartarpur Corridor.

He was aghast to know that while Pakistan was willing to grant a visa free corridor to visitors from India, New Delhi has maintained silence on this issue for 7 years.

Dr. Borris explained, “Multi-Track Diplomacy is a conceptual way to view the process of international peacemaking as a living system and that it looks at the web of interconnected activities, individuals, institutions, and communities that operate together for a common goal: a world at peace.” Mr. McDonald made intense efforts to locate the old bridge on river Ravi which was bombarded in 1965 war.

25 June, 2008
 

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