ISLAMABAD
\nForeign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has categorically stated that India\u2019s illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August, 2019 had vitiated the atmosphere and shut the door for dialogue.
\nHe was talking to a 10-member delegation of the Azad Kashmir chapter of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) led by APHC Convener Mehmood Ahmed Saghar here Saturday.
\nThe minister said India would have to go back to the drawing board of August 4, 2019 for any meaningful bilateral engagement.
\nThe meeting with APHC\u2019s AJK chapter took place at a time when the entire pro-freedom leadership in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) remained incarcerated.
\nThe delegation briefed the Foreign Minister on the situation in the occupied territory with particular reference to the ongoing human rights violations, efforts for demographic change and attempts at political engineering.
\nThe delegation expressed great appreciation for the Foreign Minister\u2019s unequivocal stance on Jammu and Kashmir during his recent visit to India.
\nTerming them an effort to further consolidate India\u2019s control over the territory, the delegation rejected the plans to hold different G-20 meetings in IIOJK, under India\u2019s ongoing presidency of the grouping.
\nThe Foreign Minister informed the delegation that his recent visit to India took place in the context of Shanghai Cooperation Organization
\n(SCO) as Pakistan attached great importance to that regional organization. However, in the run up to the visit, Pakistan had made it clear that no bilateral meeting was on cards, he added.
\nRecalling that Pakistan\u2019s official position on Jammu and Kashmir dispute had been consistent over decades, the Foreign Minister assured the delegation that the government would leave no stone unturned to support the Kashmir cause.
\nSaluting the sacrifices and courage of the Kashmiri people, the minister stressed that their fundamental rights and freedoms, including their inalienable right to self-determination, must be granted.
\nHe reaffirmed Pakistan\u2019s continued moral, political and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri people\u2019s just struggle.
\nHe also stressed that the Jammu and Kashmir dispute must be resolved in accordance with the relevant UN resolutions and aspirations of the Kashmiri people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has categorically stated that India\u2019s illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August, 2019 had vitiated the atmosphere and shut the door for dialogue. He was talking to a 10-member delegation of the Azad Kashmir chapter of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) led by APHC Convener Mehmood Ahmed Saghar here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-330972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n