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Pakistan PM seeks meaningful dialogue with India

Xinhua, February 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday his country seeks "meaningful and result oriented dialogue" with India for the resolution of outstanding issues. "However the agenda of Pakistan-India dialogue will remain inconclusive without inclusion of Kashmir dispute," he told legislators in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Shriaf visited Kashmir as Pakistan observes "Kashmir Day" to show solidarity with the Kashmiris in the Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Rallies are being organized at the government and unofficial levels across Pakistan and its part of Kashmir. The government has declared February 5 as a public holiday. Television channels are airing special programs in connection with celebrations.

The prime minister emphasized that resolution of Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN Security Council resolutions is imperative for durable peace in the region.

Pakistan and India have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir since their independence in 1947. "Pakistan will continue to extend moral, diplomatic and political support to Kashmiri people for their unprecedented struggle for the right to self- determination," Sharif told the joint session of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and Kashmir Council.

Pakistan is observing the day at a time when its relations with India are tense over escalation along their international border and the Line of Control over in the disputed Kashmir region.

Both accuse each other of the violation of a 2003 ceasefire. The recent exchange of firing caused casualties on both sides.

"The United Nations will have to break its silence on the implementation of its resolutions on Kashmir dispute,"Sharif said.

The prime minister once again reaffirmed that Pakistan will not accept any solution of Kashmir dispute that is contrary to the aspirations of Kashmiri people.

He said the international community has also recognized that the struggle of Kashmiri people could not be suppressed through the use of force.

Nawaz Sharif said he has forcefully raised the Kashmir dispute at the international forums including the United Nations and the OIC.

Indian abruptly canceled dialogue with Pakistan in August last year as a protest over a meeting of the Pakistani High Commissioner in India with Kashmiri separatist leaders in New Delhi.

Nawaz Sharif met Kashmiri separatist leaders in Muzaffarabad and assured them Pakistan is "committed to a just and peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute on the basis of the United Nations Security Council Resolutions," the PM office said. Endi