ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today harped on his Kashmir issue, saying any talks with India without the subject on the agenda would be meaningless.
His statement came within 48 hours of the collapse of the NSA talks on the issue of including Kashmir in the meeting’s agenda, as he briefed his Cabinet about the deadlock in talks with India here. ”Any dialogue sans Kashmir issue will be futile,” he said.
Kashmiri leaders were an important party to the issue and any decision regarding their future could not be made without consultations with them, Pakistan media quoted him as saying in the Cabinet meeting.
Earlier, yesterday his foreign policy adviser Sartaj Aziz had reiterated the ”core” importance of the Kashmir issue for Pakistan and levelled various charges against India accusing it of behaving like a regional power and warning it with reminder of the nuclear capability of Pakistan.
India had made it clear to Pakistan that the NSA talks were limited to the issue of terror as per the Ufa joint statement, and moreover, there was no place for involvement of any third party like Hurriyat leaders after the Shimla Agreement and Lahore declaration. (AGENCIES)
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