ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has emphatically said that there is no change in Pakistan’s historic and principled position on Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
“There is no ambiguity in Pakistan’s stance on the lingering dispute,” Qureshi while addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Tuesday.
Qureshi said that Jammu and Kashmir cannot be an internal issue of India as it is on the agenda of the United Nations and there are several UN Security Council resolutions on it.
The foreign minister said that Pakistan and the Kashmiri people have totally rejected the illegal steps taken by India on August 5, 2019. He said that Pakistan has raised its voice on the matter at all the international forums.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that at present no talks are taking place with India. However, he added that talks can take place if India revisits its policy in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and provide relief to the people there.
Let me be clear: Jammu & Kashmir is an internationally recognised dispute on the @UN Security Council agenda. Final settlement of the dispute lies in #UNSC resolution calling for free and impartial plebiscite under UN auspices. Nothing about J&K can be India’s internal matter.
— Shah Mahmood Qureshi (@SMQureshiPTI) May 10, 2021
Furthermore, Qureshi strongly condemned Israeli violence against innocent and unarmed Palestinians.
Qureshi urged the International Community to mobilize its efforts to get stopped the Israeli atrocities against Palestinians and their forced evictions from their homes.
Referring to his telephonic conversation with his Turkey Counterpart, Qureshi that Mevlut Cavusoglu is in Saudi Arabia and during talks with the Saudi Foreign Minister His Highness Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud today, he will propose an emergency ministerial-level meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in order to effectively raise the voice of Muslim Ummah on the Palestinian issue.
Responding to a question, the foreign minister categorically said that Pakistan will not give any base to the US after its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
