SRINAGAR, Sept 4: In what could prove to be not so helpful in bettering its relations with long-time foe India, Pakistan has said that it still believes the resolutions passed by the United Nations to be the final solution to the Kashmir dispute, over which the two neighbours have gone to war at least thrice in last sixty-five years.
“There is only one eventual resolution to the Kashmir problem, clearly articulated by the UN Security Council,” PTI quoted Hina Rabbani Khar as saying during a speech at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin.
The Kashmiri right to self-determination, she said, is an “agreed principle of international politics for over fifty years”.
The statement comes four days ahead of Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna’s scheduled visit to Pakistan to review the last round of the talks process between the two neigbours. Both the countries say they have made significant improvement in bilateral relations on many fronts especially trade.
“As a democratic government, we have taken bold and unprecedented decisions. Granting the Most Favoured Nation status by Pakistan to India has injected a new momentum into the Pakistan-India normalisation process,” Khar said.
“This process should create a better relationship. And we believe that a better and deeper relationship will eventually lead us to ways and means to resolve all bilateral disputes, including the most important of all, the status of Jammu and Kashmir.”
Khar said India was a “vital neighbour” for Pakistan and emphasised that history would bear witness to the “level of effort exerted” by the current government in Islamabad to normalise relations between the two countries.
