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ISLAMABAD, (APP): Pakistan wants to resolve all outstanding
issues with India through dialogue, Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees
Zakaria has said in an interview.
Talking to Radio Pakistan, the Spokesman said that
Pakistan has also offered India to hold dialogue exclusively on
Kashmir.
Pakistan is a peace-loving country and wants to
have friendly relations with all its neighbors, he said.
He termed the resolution of Kashmir issue imperative for
durable peace in the region.
All regional countries should focus on the
prosperity of their people, who are suffering with the ills of
poverty, Nafees Zakaria said.
The Spokesperson called upon the international community to
play its role for the early resolution of Kashmir dispute.
He said that Pakistan wanted resolution of the Kashmir dispute
in accordance with the aspirations of Kashmiris and also in line
with the United Nations Security Council’s resolutions.
He said that Pakistan had highlighted the Kashmir issue at all the
international fora and would continue to do this till its
resolution.
About the ongoing brutalities of Indian forces in the held-
Kashmir, the Foreign Office Spokesperson said since the start of
indigenous movement of independence, over 100,000 Kashmiris
had lost their lives, while 20,000 suffered physical disabilities.
The Spokesperson said the liberation struggle had gained
momentum in the wake of martyrdom of a Kashmiri youth on July 8.
He mentioned that during last five weeks, 70 Kashmiris had
been martyred and 6,000 were injured including 500 receiving
critical wounds. He said the Indian forces used pellet guns to
torture the innocent Kashmiri youth and children.
Nafees Zakaria said that Pakistan would continue to extend its
moral, political and diplomatic support to the Kashmiris in their
just struggle for right to self-determination.
On Pakistan’s role in elimination of terrorism, he said
that Pakistan was the biggest victim of terrorism and had sacrificed
60,000 lives in this war. The country suffered a 150 billion dollars financial setback in its economy due to this war, he added.
The Spokesman said the world had acknowledged
Pakistan’s sacrifices in the war against terrorism.
He said terrorism had become an international issue and
Pakistan was ready to share its expertise with countries on counter-
terrorism.
Nafees Zakaria said there was a need to apprise the new
generation about the Pakistan movement, which was a chapter of
history with immense sacrifices.
He said out of eight proposed segments of dialogue with
India, Pakistan would always give priority to Kashmir issue.
On recent Quetta blast, he said though Indian
spy was arrested from Pakistani soil, however Pakistan being a
responsible country, would not blame any country before completion
of investigation into the matter.