Pakistan wishes to peacefully get to the bottom of Kashmir issue: Qureshi

foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi says improving bilateral ties with the South Asian international locations remained a precedence of Pakistan's international policy. photograph: AFP/FILE

ISLAMABAD:

Pakistan wishes to resolve all marvelous issues with India, together with the core challenge of Jammu and Kashmir dispute, through peaceable potential, overseas Affairs Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi pointed out in a reply in the national meeting on Friday.

"For this to ensue, India ought to create an enabling atmosphere for a outcomes-oriented dialogue to take place," he stated.

 The particulars related to the peaceful solution to Kashmir dispute emerged in a written reply of the foreign minister throughout the query-hour session within the national assembly.

Qureshi referred to that improving bilateral ties with the South Asian nations remained a priority of Pakistan's overseas coverage.

"in response to prime Minister Imran Khan's imaginative and prescient of a 'peaceable and friendly Neighbourhood', Pakistan is pursuing the policy of good family members with the entire international locations in the vicinity, while upholding the principles of the UN charter," he pointed out in the reply.

"The salient points of our overseas coverage consist of energetic political interactions, admire for sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-interference in the inside affairs, non-aggression and peaceful agreement of disputes, safeguarding countrywide protection and geo-strategic hobbies, including Kashmir, consolidating financial cooperation, and advantageous cooperation with South Asian countries at regional and international fora," he delivered.

The reply got here in accordance with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI's) MNA Nusrat Wahid's questions regarding the salient elements of executive's international coverage and steps taken to address the regional protection condition.

Qureshi accompanied that Pakistan had taken a momentous step by using opening the Kartarpur corridor and releasing the captured Indian pilot after New Delhi's misadventure in Balakot, as a peace gesture, despite the hostile perspective of the neighbouring country.

Shedding easy on the "unlawful and unilateral Indian moves of August 5, 2019", the overseas minister maintained that the Indian makes an attempt to trade the demographic constitution of Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&ok) became in stark violation of overseas law and primary United international locations safety Council resolutions.

He accompanied that critical human rights violations and humanitarian disaster in IOJ&ok had vitiated the atmosphere.

Qureshi recommended the parliamentarians that "India has also escalated tensions at the LoC/Working Boundary (WB) in an try to divert foreign consideration from the Indian state-terrorism and egregious violations of human rights in IOJ&okay."

"Pakistan continues to sensitise the area community, including the United countries, about the risk to peace and protection posed by way of India's belligerent rhetoric and aggressive moves on the ground that consist of the intensified ceasefire violations on the road of manage," he observed.

"We additionally continue to reveal Indian atrocities at all ranges, including the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). through continuing restrictions, excruciating defense force crackdown, additional-judicial killings, arbitrary detentions and incarcerations, India seeks to perpetuate its illegal occupation of IOJ&ok," he delivered.

Highlighting the govt's efforts, the foreign minister observed that Pakistan had continually been apprising the international neighborhood in regards to the hazards of recent Delhi's "false-flag" operation which become meant to divert the attention from home criticism of the Indian government.

"Pakistan does not desire escalation but any Indian aggression or misadventure could be answered to simply and with full country wide unravel," he cited.

On Afghanistan subject, the overseas minister observed that "Pakistan believes that the economic competencies of the region can not be realised with out a peaceful and strong Afghanistan."

Underlining the country's commitment to a peaceable, stable, united and prosperous Afghanistan, Qureshi reminded that Pakistan had facilitated direct talks between the USA and Taliban, which culminated in the peace contract signed in Doha on February 29, 2020.

"Pakistan has always maintained that the most effective solution to the Afghan conflict is a politically negotiated contract, which is Afghan-led and Afghan-owned," he noted, while welcoming the announcement of agreement between President Ashraf Ghani and Dr Abdullah Abdullah, formation of negotiation team and excessive Council of national Reconciliation.

He stressed on the Afghan management to retain focus on conserving the intra-Afghan negotiations and its a hit completion and not let the talks be derailed through "spoilers" who do not are looking to see peace and steadiness within the country and place.

Qureshi underscored that the government was taking steps to develop pleasant family members and raise diplomatic engagements with the South Asian nations in keeping with equality and ahead-searching approach.

"Pakistan has all the time performed a proactive role in making SAARC a effective vehicle for regional cooperation, in accordance with the principle of sovereign equality," he concluded.