'Want to resolve Kashmir issue': Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif seeks peace talks with India
PTC News Desk: Pakistan has extended its intent to resolve all the issues including Kashmir with India, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday.
The latest remarks came as Prime Minister Sharif was addressing a Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) Assembly in Muzaffarabad on "Kashmir Solidarity Day" which marks annual day in Pakistan to show solidarity with Kashmiris.
"We want all issues, including Kashmir, to be resolved through talks," he said. Sharif said that "India should come out of the thinking of August 5, 2019, and fulfil promises made to the UN and launch a dialogue". His remarks were in reference to scrapping of Article 370 that revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories.
India has multiple time on several platforms reiterated to Pakistan that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were, are and shall always remain an integral part of India.
Pakistan Prime Minister further asserted that the only way out to resolved issues and maintain diplomatic relations is through dialogue as mentioned in Lahore declaration 1999. The declaration was signed when then-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited Pakistan.
However New Delhi has echoed that India will only sustain diplomatic ties in an environment which is significantly terror free.
- PTC NEWS
