Punjab

Kashmir day: ‘Resolve Kashmir dispute to avert war’

“The Indian govt should realise that Kashmir is a core issue”.

Our Correspondent February 06, 2014

A child with a flag wrapped around his head on Kashmir Solidarity Day in Lahore. PHOTO: SHAFIQ MALIK

LAHORE:

“If the Kashmir dispute is not resolved soon, there will be another Indo-Pak war over control of river water in the disputed territory,” Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab president Ejaz Chaudhary on Wednesday.

“The Kashmir issue should be decided according to resolutions passed in the UN. Kashmiris must also have a say,” Chaudhary added.

He was addressing a seminar organised by PTI on Kashmir Day at Hamdard Centre to express solidarity with the people of Kashmir.

Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri said that it was not possible to establish cordial relations between Pakistan and India without resolving the Kashmir issue.

He said dialogue between the two countries was the only way to resolve the dispute.

Umer Zahir Mir said resolution of the Kashmir issue was key to normalisation of relations between India and Pakistan.

Mir said until the Kashmir dispute was not resolved, peace in the region was not possible.

PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Quershi also addressed a seminar organised by the Kashmir Youth Forum at the Lahore Press Club.

“All dialogues on Kashmir are meaningless without the participation of Kashmiris. The Indian government should realise that Kashmir is a core issue. The MFN status depends on the peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 6^th, 2014.

COMMENTS (1)

Vectra | 10 years ago | Reply “If the Kashmir dispute is not resolved soon, there will be another Indo-Pak war over control of river water in the disputed territory,” When people of pakistan were against war some in pakistan like this guy talk of war with India despite knowing that war with India means inviting destruction and yes now don't say pakistan have nuclear weapon with which pakistan can do this and that when the reality is not a single will be used against India cuz that will be total suicidal for pakistan . "The Indian government should realise that Kashmir is a core issue" Sorry cant agree with this every country has its own priorities.Kashmir may be a core issue for pakistan but not for India which has other things to look at. "He said dialogue between the two countries was the only way to resolve the dispute" If such is the thinking then why bring the word WAR. "Mir said until the Kashmir dispute was not resolved, peace in the region was not possible" Leave the peace in the region alone and think about peace in pakistan.peace is not possible in pakistan not because of kashmir but because of militants pakistan has created.Instead of diverting public attention on militants try to resolve militant issue for the so called peace in the region.As for kashmir it is India's internal matter.

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