ISLAMABAD (PTI): The Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) cabinet Dec.19 urged Islamabad to call off the scheduled January foreign secretary level talks saying any parleys at a level lower than the prime ministers of India and Pakistan would be a futile exercise for durable peace in south Asian region. Representatives of the Kashmiri people on both sides of the Line of Actual Control (LOC) should be associated with the talks, a resolution adopted by the cabinet meeting chaired by POK premier, Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan, said.
The resolution charged that New Delhi had a “disappointing attitude” at the previous six rounds of discussions between foreign secretaries of the two countries and the forthcoming talks at the same level would be futile. The Kashmiri people, it said, were the primary party to the Kashmir issue and without taking them into confidence, no negotiations could prove fruitful. Urging the United Neurons secretary general to play his “role effectively” to let the Kashmin people exercise their right of self-determination he POK cabinet urged the Pakistan government to present before the UN General Assembly a resolution against India on the human rights situation in the Kashmir valley.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 24, 1993
