Pakistan Ready To Resolve All Outstanding Issues With India
Sumaira FH Published September 13, 2017 | 08:55 PM
Minister for Law and Justice Zahid Hamid on Wednesday reiterated that Pakistan was committed to resolve all outstanding issues
comprehensive dialogue: Senate told ISLAMABAD, Sept 13 (APP) : Minister for Law and Justice Zahid Hamid on Wednesday reiterated that Pakistan was committed to resolve all outstanding issues, including Kashmir with India through comprehensive dialogue.
Winding up discussion on the admitted adjournment motion moved by Senator Sehar Kamran regarding the situation arising out of the visit by the Indian Prime Minister Narindra Modi to the US and signing of a number of defence agreements between the two countries, Zahid Hamid said the Foreign Office promptly reacted to the US-India joint statement.
The Foreign Office in its statement said the US-India Joint statement was singularly unhelpful in achieving the objective of strategic stability and durable peace in the South Asian region. By failing to address key sources of tension and instability in the region, the situation would aggravate.
"India's persistent gross human rights violations in occupied Kashmir and state-backed persecution of religious minorities in India need to be replaced by respect for basic human dignity, protection of life, property and freedom of speech.
Democratic stewardship, as claimed in the statement, demands that as a minimum". He said Pakistan firmly believed in the legitimacy of the Kashmir cause and supports the peaceful struggle of the Kashmiri people for their right to self determination -a right promised to them by the international community through repeated UN Security Council resolutions.
"Any attempt to equate the peaceful indigenous Kashimiri struggle with terrorism, and to designate individuals supporting the right to self determination as terrorists is unacceptable. Equally unacceptable is the wilful disregard of the atrocities being committed by the Indian security forces against innocent Kashimiri civilians.
This undermines the ideals and principles of the UN Charter. It endangers peace and security in the region". He said no country has sacrificed as much as Pakistan, not only in material resources but in lives.
Through relentless security operations, we have achieved significant success in eliminating terrorists and their networks from our soil without discrimination. We are committed to bring the fight against terrorism to its logical conclusion by eliminating this scourge from our soil.
Pakistan expects the international community to unequivocally stand with it in this fight against terrorism. Quoting the FO statement, the minister said India has supported the Tehrik-i-Taliban as a proxy against Pakistan from across the border.
India's culpability in creating this further source of regional insecurity cannot be ignored." Pakistan was also deeply concerned on the sale of advanced military technologies to India. Such sales accentuate military imbalances in the region and undermine strategic stability in South Asia.
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