Nisar Ahmed Thokar
Islamabad, Feb 24: The Chairman Parliamentary Kashmir Committee Maulana Fazl-ur-Rahman has said that the peace and amity between India and Pakistan was inescapably linked to the resolution of decades’ long unresolved dispute of Kashmir.
Commenting on the views expressed by India parliamentarians during their recent visit to Pakistan the KC chief said, “We appreciate the noble sentiments and wishes of the Indian leaders but it is also an undeniable fact that despite repeated calls for friendship and neighborly relations between the two countries no headway whatsoever has been made in this direction due to the unsettled issue of Kashmir”.
“Our relations remained volatile because India is not ready to resolve the long-running dispute of Kashmir that happens to be the core issue between the two nations”, Fazl said in a statement issued here on Friday. He said that “The Composite Dialogue was started about 15 years ago and many subjects have been discussed, but the issue of Kashmir has not even been touched as yet”, he said adding that how could there be peace when Kashmiris were being butchered and women raped in the troubled region?
The Chairman Kashmir Committee observed that he would like to assure the Indian leaders that Pakistanis harboured similar sentiments of love, friendship and peace for the Indian people. However, he made it clear that the resolution of Kashmir dispute was imperative for regional peace and stability.
He called upon the Indian leaders to constitute a Kashmir Committee in their Parliament, so that the parliamentary committees of the two countries can sit and talk to each other to find out an amicable and lasting solution of Kashmir dispute.
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