NEW DELHI:
India today countered Pakistan at the ongoing Asian-African Summit in Jakarta, reiterating that Jammu and Kashmir was an integral part of India.
The Advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan for National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz made an unacceptable reference to Kashmir which was challenged by Anil Wadhwa, Secretary (East), the Ministry of External Affairs said here today.
It is most unfortunate that Pakistan has once again chosen to use an international forum such as this to make tendentious remarks about the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which is an integral part of India, Mr Wadhwa said.
As the representative of Pakistan knows, under the Simla Agreement of July 1972, and the Lahore Declaration of February 1999, India and Pakistan were committed to resolve all outstanding issues bilaterally through peaceful dialogue and cooperation, and not in a multilateral forum such as African-Asian meeting which was meant to commemorate the spirit of Bandung, he said.
Pakistan has been trying to raise the Kashmir issue at various other international fora, including the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC). (AGENCIES)
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