Islamabad: Pakistan is seeking dialogue with India and wants to resolve all outstanding matters, including Kashmir issue, through talks, a senior Pakistani leader has said.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s advisor Sartaj Aziz on Sunday said Islamabad wanted to restore peace in the South Asian region and would continue extending “political, moral and diplomatic support to Kashmiris until they achieve freedom from India”.
The Pakistani adviser on foreign affairs also said that Pakistan wanted to hold dialogue with India to resolve all outstanding issues, including Kashmir so that the peace could be restored in the region.
According to The News International, Aziz said “India will have to give freedom to Kashmiris”.
He said that Indian atrocities in the Kashmir Valley had reached the peak after Hizbul commander Burhan Wani’s death last year during clashes with Indian security forces.
Pakistan wants to hold dialogue with India to resolve all outstanding issues, including Kashmir, so that peace can be restored in the region, Sartaj Aziz, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s adviser on foreign affairs, has said.
Aziz’s remarks came amid escalating tension between India and Pakistan along the Line of Control (LoC).
External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said on Monday she was yet to hear from Aziz on a letter asking for a visa for the mother of Kulbhushan Jadhav, an Indian naval officer sentenced to death by a military court in that country.
Swaraj said the visa application of Avantika Jadhav who wanted to meet her son in Pakistan was still pending.
Aziz also accused India of increasing the tension on the LoC to divert attention from the human rights violations in Kashmir, The News International newspaper reported.
He claimed that in the last one year, India had committed 450 LoC violations, killing many innocent people.
Aziz said that Pakistan wanted to hold dialogue with India to resolve all outstanding issues, including Kashmir so that the peace could be restored in the region.
At the same time, Aziz said Pakistan would continue political, moral and diplomatic support of Kashmiris until and unless Kashmiris achieve freedom from India. He said India could not suppress the vigour of Kashmiris for freedom.
India being a democratic country should give chance to the people of Kashmir to decide their future course, he said.
