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Islamabad, Jan 29
India and Pakistan have made "unprecedented" progress on the Kashmir issue, Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri has said while maintaining that no solution would be acceptable to Islamabad until it was agreeable to the Kashmiris.
Kasuri said his government would resolve the Kashmir issue with consensus in Pakistan and take all decisions in the national interest and any proposed agreement would be discussed in the cabinet and taken to Parliament for debate.
"We have made unprecedented progress towards solving the Kashmir issue in the last three years. Both countries should adopt realistic approach and solve all issues," Kasuri said at a seminar by Pakistan Thinkers Forum in Lahore yesterday.
Defending backchannel diplomacy, Kasuri said there was nothing unusual about secret talks but no solution would be acceptable to Pakistan until it was acceptable to Kashmiris.
"Every single word is cleared by Foreign Office and even every comma and fullstop in the draft (on possible solutions to the Kashmir issue) is cleared by it. I would never advocate something that I don't believe in," he said.
Kasuri said settlement of the Kashmir issue was in the interest of both the countries as they had reached a conclusion after 30 years of hostilities that talks were the only way out.
On the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline (IPI), he said Pakistan will guided by national interest despite US objections.
"There will be no compromise on Pakistan's national interest. Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline is in our interest. Pakistan does not accepted pressure from any quarter," he said. |
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