Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday said sustainable peace in the region was not possible without resolving the Kashmir dispute.
Meeting of parliamentary committee on Kashmir was held under the chairmanship of Shehryar Afridi on Monday.
Briefing the Committee in Islamabad, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the matter of human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir was raised at Human Rights Council, OIC and other international forums.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the UN Security Council resolutions negate the India’s claim that Kashmir is its internal issue.
The Minister said Pakistan has clear stance that Kashmir issue should be resolved in the light of UNSC resolutions and as per wishes of Kashmiris.
Chairman committee Shehryar Afridi while lauding the efforts of Pakistani Diaspora for raising human-rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) internationally, said that he met key entities of US and other countries regarding Jammu and Kashmir during his recent visit to US. “I am thankful to the foreign minister and his team for helping me out in carrying out those imperative meetings” Shehryar said.
American Democratic Party’s leader Tahir Javed, who attended the meeting as special guest said that US-based Pakistani community was politically active in the US. He lauded Pakistani government for its initiatives for overseas Pakistanis.
Foreign Minister while briefing the meeting on Kashmir issue said that Jammu and Kashmir has been a flashpoint in South Asia for more than seventy years. Every Pakistani government played its part in keeping the Jammu and Kashmir issue alive. India always tried to sabotage Pakistan’s narrative.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that parliament’s consensus on Kashmir issue was a pleasant point. He said that India has been trying to prove Kashmir issue as its ‘internal affair’ but there claims were kowtowed during previous UN Security Council’s meeting.
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