Pakistan will not accept India's supremacy: Sartaj Aziz

Prime Minister's senior aide was addressing the National Assembly session

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's senior aide Sartaj Aziz said on Friday that the nation would not accept India's paramountcy.

He made the remarks during an NA session, Members of the NA raised concerns regarding India's attempt to isolate Pakistan, to which Aziz gave a stern reply.



Further, the premier's adviser foreign affairs announced that Pakistan was willing to hold talks with India, however, it would only do so if Kashmir was included in the agenda. Referring to the issue of Indian belligerence on the Line of Control (LoC) and gross human rights violations in occupied Kashmir, Aziz said, "Pakistan has never attacked civilians along the LoC.

Indian forces targeted a passenger bus in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, killing at least nine people and wounding another nine.

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The bus was en route to Muzaffarabad from Kel when it was hit by Indian mortar fire near Lawat Kanari Bala area of Neelum Valley, some 99km from AJK capital Muzaffarabad. Pakistani troops retaliated to the unprovoked shelling by attacking Indian posts and other strategic positions, killing seven Indian soldiers.

"Pakistan will continue to support Kashmiris in their fight for the right of self determination morally, as well as diplomatically," Aziz said.