Urges India to shun its policy of intransigence to resolve K-dispute
Islamabad: Acting Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) Mehmood Ahmed Saghar while welcoming Pakistan Chief of Army Staff Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa’s recent statement on Kashmir has asked the government of India to accept the ground reality and resume dialogue to settle the long-running dispute of Kashmir to ensure durable peace and prosperity in the entire south Asian region.
In a statement issued here on Friday Saghar said that Gen. Bajwa’s statement provides a window of opportunity for India and Pakistan to resolve all outstanding disputes, in particular the unresolved Kashmir dispute that has been the biggest hurdle in the way of peace and prosperity in the region and beyond.
Gen. Bajwa, he said, has rightly said that without resolution of Kashmir dispute through peaceful means, the process of sub continental rapprochement will always remain susceptible to derailment due to politically motivated bellicosity. Saghar said that it was high time that Indian leadership must realize this ground reality and come forward with a positive state of mind to engage with Pakistan and the leadership of Kashmir to bring about a lasting solution to the Kashmir dispute to ensure peace and stability in the region.
Terming Kashmir as key to regional peace the DFP leader said that history bears testimony to the fact that there could be no peace unless the Kashmir dispute was resolved in its true historic perspective.
He said that Kashmiris have always rendered full support to the dialogue process aimed at resolving the core issue of Kashmir but India’s stubborn attitude and its policy of intransigence has always been a stumbling block in resolving the dispute peacefully.
Terming dialogue as the only civilized way to resolve disputes Saghar said that it was high time that the Indian leaders should recognize the fact that Kashmir is a political issue that needs to be resolved politically in accordance with the universally accepted principle of right to self-determination.
