Pakistan urges world to help resolve Kashmir issue

Islamabad: Pakistan has urged the international community to play its due role to help resolve the outstanding issue of Jammu and Kashmir.

Foreign Office spokesperson, Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri told a weekly press briefing that Pakistan wants peaceful and cooperative relations with all the neighbours, including India and is determined to resolve all outstanding issues with New Delhi through dialogue.

The Spokesperson said Prime Minister Imran Khan, just after coming to power, had stated that if India takes one step towards peace, Pakistan will take two.

He said Imran Khan, while speaking at the Islamabad Security Dialogue, had once again stated that we are ready for talks to resolve outstanding issues of which Jammu and Kashmir is the core dispute.

Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said Pakistan never shy away from talks, but it must be meaningful and result-oriented to resolve outstanding disputes particularly the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Spokesperson said India, through its unilateral and illegal actions of 5th August 2019, vitiated the environment and Pakistan believes that now the onus is on India to create a conducive and enabling environment for a result-oriented and meaningful dialogue between the two countries.

Answering another question, Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said Afghan peace process has entered an important phase and now it is responsibility of all the parties concerned to maintain the gains that have been made so far.

Regarding withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the Spokesperson said Pakistan has always maintained that it should be an orderly withdrawal as any disorderly withdrawal can create a vacuum, which can be exploited by terrorist elements.