ISLAMABAD: The British foreign secretary Douglas Hurd Oct.31 declared that India and Pakistan should set out on a dialogue under the Simla agreement for a peaceful solution of the Kashmir issue and said he had told Islamabad to stop giving material support to the Kashmiri militants.
“The United Nations resolutions on Kashmir are there they are part of the background. Since they were passed there have been developments and there has been progress. You have to ask what the most likely way forward is” Hurd who arrived on a day’s official visit to Pakistan told a press conference.
The foreign secretary said the United Kingdom wanted the start of a “valid political process” by identification of representative Kashmiris to whom the government of India could talk.
He said there should be “stoppage of any assistance” to the militants from outside Kashmir which could “only obscure as basic solution.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 13, 1992
