Pak says focus on Kashmir
Lahore, July 25: Pakistan has said it will be impossible for it to continue the dialogue with India if New Delhi does not pay importance to the Kashmir issue.
“India must include the Kashmir issue in talks with Pakistan in order to take forward parleys between the two countries,” the foreign minister, Mr Shah Mahmood Qureshi, said.
“It will be impossible for Pakistan to continue the dialogue if India does not pay importance to the Kashmir issue,” Mr Qureshi told reporters at the airport here yesterday after returning from a trip abroad.
His remarks came more than a week after his July 15 meeting with his Indian counterpart, Mr S.M. Krishna, in Islamabad during which sharp differences arose between the two sides on the timeframe and roadmap for future talks.
On the proposed Pakistan-Afghanistan transit trade agreement, he described it as a significant achievement, but ruled out any provision in the pact to allow India to send its goods to Afghanistan via Pakistan.
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