Pakistan advocates outcome oriented dialogue with India to resolve excellent points: Foreign Office

Pakistan’s Foreign Office stated the nation has advocated result-oriented dialogue with India to resolve all excellent points.

Islamabad,UPDATED: Jan 20, 2023 06:24 IST

Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch (Photo from @Mumtazzb on Twitter)

By Press Trust of India: Pakistan has constantly advocated constructive engagement and outcome oriented dialogue with India to resolve all excellent points, together with the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, the Foreign Office stated on Thursday.

Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, nonetheless, accused India of vitiating the surroundings of peace between the 2 international locations.

At her weekly media briefing, Baloch was requested about Pakistan’s place on ties with India within the context of a latest interview with a UAE media outlet by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif who expressed a need for talks. However, the Prime Minister’s Office later stated talks aren’t doable with out India revoking its 2019 actions on Kashmir.

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Baloch stated that the Prime Minister’s remarks clearly articulated his perspective.

“Pakistan’s position on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute…is very clear. Pakistan has always desired cooperative relations with all its neighbours, including India,” she said.

She said Pakistan has consistently advocated constructive engagement and result oriented dialogue to resolve all outstanding issues, including the dispute of Jammu and Kashmir.

“However, India’s unabated hostility and retrogressive actions have vitiated the surroundings and impeded the prospects for peace and cooperation,” she alleged.

She stated that Pakistan “believes the onus remains on India to take the necessary steps to create an enabling environment conducive for meaningful and result oriented dialogue.”

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She stated Pakistan would admire if the worldwide group, particularly pleasant international locations, would persuade India to take such steps.

India on Thursday stated it all the time wished regular neighbourly ties with Pakistan however there ought to be an environment free from terror and violence for such a relationship.

India has been sustaining that it wishes regular neighbourly relations with Pakistan whereas insisting that the onus is on Islamabad to create an surroundings freed from terror and hostility for such an engagement.

The ties between India and Pakistan got here underneath extreme pressure after India’s warplanes pounded a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist coaching camp in Balakot in Pakistan in February 2019 in response to the Pulwama terror assault.

The relations additional deteriorated after India in August 2019 introduced withdrawing particular powers of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcation of the state into two union territories.

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Jan 20, 2023