ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has invited the Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Gillani to visit Pakistan and exchange views on the current situation in Indian occupied Kashmir, the Foreign Office said.
“Hurriyat is main representative of the people of Jammu and Kashmir,” the Foreign Office Spokesman Qazi Khalilullah said in his weekly media briefing in Islamabad on Thursday.
Kashmir has been the main cause of tension between Pakistan and India since their independence. The two countries have not only fought a couple of wars over the issue but their bilateral talks also faced a setback whenever Pakistan insists to include Kashmir issue in the dialogue process or hold meetings with the Kashmiri separatist leaders.
The spokesman said that Kashmiris are directly affected by Kashmir dispute and therefore a party to it, trying to validate Pakistan’s stance that Kashmiris should be part of bilateral talks between Pakistan and India.
Qazi Khalilullah further said that Kashmiris are facing is also a state terrorism.
In reply to a question, the spokesman reiterated that Pakistan is willing to hold talks with India provided there are no pre-conditions and Kashmir is included in the agenda.
The spokesman further said that Pakistan has given three dossiers to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon with evidence of India’s involvement in Balochistan and Karachi and fomenting terrorism by supporting Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Khalilullah said that Pakistan expects India not to allow use of its soil for hatching conspiracies against Pakistan.
