A seminar was held at Kotkapura-District Faridkot in Punjab on 23rd September 2007, in which over 150 doctors from the towns of Kotkapura, Mukatsar, Jaitu, Moga, Zira, Faridkot, Morinda, Chandigarh, Rama Mandi and Ludhiana participated. They was resolved to campaign for complete abolition of nuclear weapons from earth and end to arms race. The meeting was organized by the initiative of Dr P S Brar, executive member of IDPD. The seminar was presided over by Dr L S Chawla-President IDPD. Dr Arun Mitra - General Secretary IDPD in his presentation talked of emerging challenges before the medical profession in the present day. He pointed out that the medical profession has always stood for prevention of disease. War is such a situation where diseases are more than any other situation. Therefore it is the duty of medical professional to prevent war and to work for peace and disarmament. IDPD has always been in the fore front for this. Carrying forward this campaign IDPD has decided to organize 18th World Congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) at Delhi in March 2008. Dr L S Chawla in his presidential remarks said that whereas world spends more than 17,000 crores of rupees on arms race per day, more than 15,000 children die of hunger per day. This is an irony of the situation in an era when there is so much development as a result of technological advance. Nuclear weapons, he said are the weapons of mass destruction. India will become more powerful to produce nuclear weapons after the Indo U S nuclear deal. This will lead to increase in arms race not only in south Asia but the whole world. Dr Amrit Sethi – President IMA Punjab while endorsing this view point said that the deal should be shelved. The agenda for peace will be one of the important agendas of IMA in the time to come, he said. Others who addressed the meting include Dr Bharti, Dr Pardeep Kapoor, Dr Som Nath, and Dr Ravi Singla. Dr P S Brar promised that a big group of doctors will participate in the World Congress in March 2008. Prominent among those who attended the seminar include Dr Tej Ram Garg, Dr Nirmal Kumar Dhiman, Dr Raj Mohan Singh.