ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Office on Thursday said that Pakistan and India have a fundamental dispute regarding Kashmir issue and all other problems between the two countries cannot be solved unless there is a political settlement on the Kashmir issue. He told reporters at a weekly press briefing that Pakistan is always ready for talks with its neighbour to resolve all outstanding issues including the core issue of Kashmir. The spokesman opined that both the countries cannot move forward without resolving the Kashmir issue and reiterated Pakistan’s principled stance that Kashmiri people should be given the right of self-determination or plebiscite under the UNSC resolutions. Dr Faisal stated that India is bent upon aggression, however, Pakistan is fully capable of defending its sovereignty and territorial integrity. “Non-interference in the domestic affairs of other countries has always been the key principle of our foreign policy”, he apprised.

Source: Pakistan Today February 15, 2018 09:23 UTC