ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sept.9, described as “no mean achievement” the decision of the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan to continue the dialogue to resolve all outstanding issues including Kashmir.

There has been no agreement on how this settlement should take place as there is a disagreement on both sides but the two leaders mutually shared the desire that some steps should be taken, That itself is no mean achievement,” a Foreign Office spokesman said while replying to questions at a Press briefing here as to how Islamabad viewed the talks between P.V Narasimha Rao and Nawaz Sharif at the NAM summit in Jakarta.

He said that Pakistan stressed at the summit that the Kashmir issues should be resolved peacefully through dialogue and negotiations and urged UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to request India to involve itself in meaningful talks.

Article extracted from this publication >> September 25, 1992